He is the author of numerous articles, book chapters, and books, including Work Without End: Abandoning Shorter Hours for the Right to Work (1987, Temple, see NY Times book review, Washington Post review); Kellogg's Six-Hour Day (1995, Temple, see NY Times book review) Free Time: The Forgotten American Dream (2013, Temple, see short review, NY Times), The Age of Experiences: Harnessing happiness to Build a New Economy (Temple, 2020, Foreword by Joe Pine).

Hunnicutt is a member of the Academy of Leisure Sciences and past co-director of the Society for the Reduction of Human Labor.

Professor Hunnicutt received his MA and PhD in American History from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

He has served as chair of Leisure Studies and head of the Division of Physical Education at the University of Iowa.

Hunnicutt has written for The Wall Street Journal, Politico, Salon, and the Huffington Post, and appeared in a variety of nationally and internationally broadcast television and radio programs including: ABC News, NBC News, PBS, the Canadian and British Broadcasting Corporations, the Today Show, the Charlie Rose Show, and appeared in the PBS special, “Running Out of Time” and the German documentary, “Frohes Schaffen - Ein Film zur Senkung der Arbeitsmoral”.