Lynn Hunt
American historian
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 . [1] 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. [2]
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 . [3] Before coming to UCLA she taught at the University of California, Berkeley (1974–1987) and the University of Pennsylvania (1987–1998). [4]
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 . [5]
In 1982 Hunt received a Guggenheim Fellowship to study French History. [6]
Hunt was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2003. [7] In 2014 she was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy . [8]
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Books
- Revolution and urban politics in provincial France . 1978.
- The Failure of the Liberal Republic in France, 1795–1799: The Road to Brumaire , coauthored with David Lansky and Paul Hanson in The Journal of Modern History Vol. 51, No. 4, December 1979.
- Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution (1984)
- The New Cultural History (1989)
- The Family Romance of the French Revolution (1992)
- Telling the Truth about History (W. W. Norton, 1994)
- Histories: French Constructions of the Past (1995)
- The French Revolution and Human Rights: A Brief Documentary History(1996)
- Beyond the Cultural Turn (1999)
- Liberty, equality, fraternity: exploring the French Revolution [book, CD, and website] (2001)
- The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures (2005)
- Inventing Human Rights: A History (W. W. Norton, 2007)* Inventing Human Rights: A History (W. W. Norton, 2007)
- La storia culturale nell'età globale , Edizioni ETS, Pisa, 2010
- Writing History in the Global Era (W. W. Norton, 2014)
- History: Why it Matters (2018)
Book reviews
Year | Review article | Work(s) reviewed |
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2019 | Hunt, Lynn (March 7–20, 2019). "The man who questioned everything". The New York Review of Books . 66 (4): 17–19. |
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References
- ↑ "Presidential Lectures: Lynn Hunt" . prelectur.stanford.edu .
- ↑ "Lynn Hunt | AHA" . www.historians.org .
- ↑ "Lynn Hunt | UCLA History" . history.ucla.edu . Retrieved 2021-09-14 .
- ↑ "Lynn Hunt | UCLA History" . history.ucla.edu . Retrieved 2021-05-24 .
- ↑ Jarvis, Katie; Hunt, Lynn (2020). "ASECS at 50: Interview with Lynn Hunt" . Eighteenth-Century Studies . 53 (4): 547–554. doi : 10.1353/ecs.2020.0063 . ISSN 1086-315X . S2CID 226588439 .
- ↑ "John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellows: Lynn Hunt" . Archived from the original on January 4, 2013.
- ↑ "APS Member History" . search.amphilsoc.org . Retrieved 2021-09-14 .
- ↑ "British Academy announces 42 new fellows" . Times Higher Education . 18 July 2014 . Retrieved 18 July 2014 .
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