Lynn Hunt

Professor Lynn Hunt is a Distinguished Research Professor and Eugen Weber Professor Emerita at UCLA. She is also a former professor at the University of Pennsylvania and University of California, Berkeley and has her B.A. from Carleton College, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. Professor Hunt's current research projects include a study of French revolutionary graphic arts, French revolutionary finances, and the links between women and modernity. Hunt has written books on the origins of religious toleration, human rights and historical method and epistemology. Hunt has been acknowledged for her contributions with honorary degrees, Distinguished Teaching Awards, Prix Albert Babeau, and the Nancy Lyman Roelker Graduate Mentorship Award from AHA. She was President of the American Historical Association in 2002.