Andrew Emerson Hunt (born 1968)[1]: iv  is a Canadian history professor, at the University of Waterloo in Canada.

While a young boy, Hunt witnessed the California state convention of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War held in his family's backyard in 1972.

[9] On May 11, 1987, Hunt (then an undergraduate) was one of eight student activists protesting South African apartheid who practiced civil disobedience at a meeting of the University of Utah's Institutional Council.

Hunt is the author of several books (see below), and is a columnist for the Waterloo Region Record where he regularly comments on politics and world affairs.

Hunt has said that his research and effort for writing his first book (The Turning: A History of Vietnam Veterans Against the War[1]) was part of his own quest "to understand the environment and the society that swept my family away and broke us apart.

Hunt has written: For about two years, I had a Blog called Andrew's Tiki Lounge: Helping Canadians (and Anyone Else Who's Interested) Make Sense of the United States...