Olivier Zunz (born 1946) is a social historian,[1] and Commonwealth Professor at the University of Virginia, known for his work on the twentieth-century history of the American urban society and the development of modern philanthropy.
He received his BA in history and geography (licence d'histoire et de géographie) from the University of Paris in 1968, his PhD from the Pantheon-Sorbonne University in 1977, where in 1982 he also received his Doctor of Letters.
Since 1979 he has been a Commonwealth Professor at the Corcoran Department of History of the University of Virginia.
In 1986 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowships for his exceptional work on US history.
In 2011, he was named an Officier of the French Ordre National du Mérite.