Lynn Hunt, emerita professor of history at UCLA, has been awarded the 2018–2019 Constantine Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award by the University of California.
This award honors emeriti professors for their outstanding scholarly work or educational service performed, since retirement, in the fields of humanities or social sciences.
Hunt is an internationally renowned historian, whose contributions have helped shape a range of intellectual inquiry, including historical methodology, historical research approaches, debates between historical truth and narrative, human rights and assumptions about time. During retirement, Hunt has written several books, which include “Writing History in the Global Era”, “The French Revolution and Napoleon: Crucible of the Modern World” and “History: Why It Matters.” Hunt has received several honors since her retirement, and was most recently named by the American Council of Learned Societies as the 2019 Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecturer.
Hunt is admired for her scholarly acumen, her dedication to teaching and her generosity as an undergraduate teacher and graduate mentor.
The Constantine Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award was established in 1983 in honor of Panunzio, a professor of sociology at UCLA, who is recognized for his contributions to the UC Retirement System and for having been particularly active in improving pensions and stipends for his fellow emeriti.
