Lynn Avery Hunt (born November 16, 1945) is the Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at the

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. 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

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. 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

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in 2002. Born in

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and raised in

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, she has her B.A. from

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(1967) and her M.A. (1968) and Ph.D. (1973) from

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. Before coming to UCLA she taught at the

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(1974–1987) and the

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(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 Cultural history records and interprets past events involving human beings through the social, cultural, and political milieu of or relating to the arts and manners that a group favors. Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897) helped found cultural history ...

and

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. 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

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to study French History. Hunt was elected to the

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in 2003. In 2014 she was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.

Bibliography

Books

* * ''Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution'' (1984) * ''The New Cultural History: Essays'' (1989) * ''Eroticism and the Body Politic'' (1991) * ''The Family Romance of the French Revolution'' (1992) * ''The Invention of Pornography: Obscenity and the Origins of Modernity, 1500–1800'' (1993) * ''Telling the Truth about History'' (1994) * ''Histories: French Constructions of the Past'' (1995) * ''The Challenge of the West: Peoples and Cultures from the Stone Age to the Global Age'' (1995) * ''The French Revolution and Human Rights: A Brief Documentary History'' (1996) * ''Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture'' (1999) * ''Human Rights and Revolutions'' (2000) * ''Liberty, equality, fraternity: exploring the French Revolution'' ook, CD, and website(2001) * ''The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures: A Concise History'' (2005) * ''Inventing Human Rights: A History'' (2007) *
La storia culturale nell'età globale
', Edizioni ETS, Pisa, 2010 * ''Writing History in the Global Era'' (2014) * ''History: Why it Matters'' (2018)

Journal Articles

* ''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.

Book reviews

References

External links

Lynn A. Hunt at UCLA Department of History
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