Lynn Hunt, UC Los Angeles, Emerita and Distinguished Research Professor of History, retired in 2013. Before coming to UCLA, she taught at UC Berkeley from 1974 to 1987, and then the University of Pennsylvania. She is an internationally renowned historian and leading scholar in her field. Her work on the French Revolution is classic and she has made influential contributions helping to shape a range of intellectual inquiry from historical methodology, new historical research approaches, debates between historical truth and narrative, human rights, and assumptions about time. Since retirement, Professor Emerita Hunt has published three books, the substantially revised Writing History in the Global Era (2014), which has been translated into Japanese, Chinese, and Turkish, The French Revolution and Napoleon: Crucible of the Modern World (with Jack R. Censer, 2017), and History: Why It Matters (2018). Additionally, she was elected as a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy (2014), was the Humanitas Visiting Professor at Trinity College, Oxford University (2014), and has been named by the American Council of Learned Societies as the 2019 Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecturer. Professor Hunt displays a luminous scholarly acumen and is a greatly admired and respected colleague. In addition, her dedication to teaching is widely recognized and she is considered a generous undergraduate teacher and graduate mentor.
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