Lynn Hunt

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Lynn Avery Hunt (born November 16, 1945 in Panama ) is an American modern historian and cultural historian.

Lynn Hunt grew up in St. Paul (Minnesota) and studied at Carleton College with a bachelor's degree in 1967 and at Stanford University with a master's degree in 1968 and a doctorate in 1973. She then taught until 1987 at the University of California, Berkeley (1974 Assistant Professor, 1979 Associate Professor, 1984 Professor), 1987 to 1998 at the University of Pennsylvania (Joe and Emily Lowe Foundation Term Professor in the Humanities, from 1991 Annenberg Professor) and from 1999 at the University of California, Los Angeles , at which she is Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History and where she retired in 2013 and became Distinguished Research Professor.

She is known for a book about the origins of human rights in the 18th century (Inventing Human Rights, 2007) and did research on the French Revolution (such as graphic arts, finance, provincial policy, cultural history as their study The Family Romance of the French Revolution with psychoanalytic approach), European cultural history (for example early views on world religions in the 18th century), gender studies (for example she edited anthologies on the history of pornography and eroticism and published gender studies on the French Revolution) and general questions of historiography.

In 2002 she was president of the American Historical Association . In 1982 she was a Guggenheim Fellow. She is a corresponding member (fellow) of the British Academy (2014).

She was visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales (1984/85, 2002) in Paris, at the University of Peking (1985) and the Universities of Utrecht and Amsterdam (1993) and the University of Ulster. In 1991 she became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and she is an honorary doctor of Carleton College (1991) and Northwestern University (2006). She is a member of the American Philosophical Society .

She wrote the section on the French Revolution in the Histoire de la vie privée edited by Philippe Ariès .

Fonts (selection)

  • Revolution and Urban Politics in Provincial France: Troyes and Reims, 1786–1790, Stanford University Press, 1978 (= dissertation)
  • with David Lansky, Paul Hanson: The Failure of the Liberal Republic in France, 1795–1799: The Road to Brumaire, Journal of Modern History, Volume 51, 1979, No. 4
  • Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution, University of California Press 1984
    • German translation: Symbols of power, power of symbols: the French Revolution and the draft of a political culture, S. Fischer 1989
  • Masculin et féminin dans la révolution française, Pages d'Ecritures, Volume 3, 1989, pp. 12-14
  • with Linda Kerber u. a .: Forum: Beyond Roles, Beyond Spheres: Thinking about Gender in the Early Republic, The William and Mary Quarterly, Volume 46, 1989, pp. 565-585
  • Editor: The New Cultural History, University of California Press 1989
  • Editor: Eroticism and the Body Politic, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991
  • Editor: The Invention of Pornography: Obscenity and the Origins of Modernity, Zone Books, 1993
  • The Family Romance of the French Revolution, University of California Press 1992
  • with Joyce Appleby, Margaret Jacob: Telling the Truth about History, Norton 1994
  • with others: The Challenge of the West, Heath, Houghton Mifflin 1995
  • with Jacques Revel (Ed.): Histories: French Constructions of the Past. Postwar French Thought, The New Press 1998
  • with Victoria Bonnell: Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture, University of California Press 1999
  • with Jack R. Censer: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution, Penn State University Press 2001
  • Inventing Human Rights, WW Norton 2007
  • Measuring Time: Making History, The Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lecture Series, Vol. 1, Central European University Press 2007
  • with Margaret Jacob, Wijnand Mijnhardt: The book that changed Europe: Picart and Bernard's "Religious ceremonies of the world", Harvard UP 2010
  • Editor with Suzanne Desan, William Nelson: The French Revolution in Global Perspective, Cornell University Press 2013
  • Writing History in the Global Era, Norton 2014
  • Editor with Thomas R. Martin, Barbara H. Rosenwein, R. Po-Chia Hsia, Bonnie G. Smith: The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures, St. Martin 's 2001, Bedford Books, 5th edition, 2016 ( in two volumes)
  • with Jack R. Censer: The French Revolution and Napoleon: Crucible of the Modern World, Bloomsbury 2017
  • History: Why It Matters, Wiley 2018

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