Samuel Clowes Huneke is an American historian of modern Europe, author, and essayist.
Huneke graduated from Amherst College with a bachelor's degree summa cum laude in German and Mathematics in 2011.
In 2012, he earned an MSc with Distinction in Applicable Mathematics from the London School of Economics.
In 2019, he earned his PhD in modern European history from Stanford University, where he studied with historian Edith Sheffer.
His first book, States of Liberation: Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany (2022) won the Charles E. Smith Award for best book in European History from the European History Section of the Southern Historical Association.