Lynn Avery Hunt (born November 16, 1945) is the Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at the University of California, Los Angeles. 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.
Books in order of publication:
Revolution and urban politics in provincial France. 1978.
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 [book, 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)
The Revolutionary Self: Social Change and the Emergence of the Modern Individual, 1770-1800 – 2025
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