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 current research projects include a collaborative study of an early 18th-century work on comparative religion that appeared in 7 volumes with 275 engravings by the artist Bernard Picart.
[5] In 1982 Hunt received a Guggenheim Fellowship to study French History.
[6] Hunt was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2003.