Lynn Hunt
Lynn Avery Hunt (born November 16, 1945) is the
Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at the
University of California, Los Angeles. Her area of expertise is the
French Revolution, but she is also well known for her work in European cultural history on such topics as
gender. Her 2007 work, ''Inventing Human Rights'', has been heralded as the most comprehensive analysis of the
history of human rights. She served as president of the
American Historical Association in 2002.
Born in
Panama and raised in
St. Paul, Minnesota, she has her B.A. from
Carleton College (1967) and her M.A. (1968) and Ph.D. (1973) from
Stanford University. Before coming to UCLA she taught at the
University of California, Berkeley (1974-1987) and the
University of Pennsylvania (1987-1998).
Prof. Hunt teaches
French and
European history and the
history of history as an academic discipline. Her specialties include the
French Revolution,
gender history,
cultural history and
historiography. Her current research projects include a collaborative study of an early 18th-century work on
comparative religion that appeared in 7 volumes with 275 engravings by the artist
Bernard Picart.
In 1982 Hunt received a
Guggenheim Fellowship to study French History.
In 2014 she was elected a
Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.
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