Lynn Hunt

Lynn Hunt is an Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, where she has been teaching since 1974. She completed her undergraduate studies in history at Carleton College and earned her master's and doctoral degrees in history from Stanford University. Subsequently, she participated for three years in the weekly seminars of the Collective Action / Social History Group led by Charles and Louise Tilly at the University of Michigan Society of Fellows. Her first book, "Revolution and Urban Politics in Provincial France: Troyes and Reims, 1786-1790" (Stanford University Press, 1978), won the local history award in France. Hunt has also published a comparative analysis of French cities during the Revolution ("Committees and Communes: Local Politics and National Revolution in 1789," Comparative Studies in Society and History [1976]), as well as an analysis of the political differences between French regions based on geography ("The Political Geography of Revolutionary France," Journal of Interdisciplinary History [1984]). In "Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution" (University of California Press, 1984), she combines techniques from literary criticism, art history, and political anthropology with quantitative studies of local and national political elites.