Lynn Hunt

Lynn Avery Hunt is the Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). 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. 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.