Lynn Hunt is Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History emerita and now Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA. She has authored, co-authored or edited books on the origins of human rights, the French Revolution, historical method and epistemology, time in history, the eighteenth century sources of religious toleration as well as the history of pornography and has co-authored textbooks on western civilization and the French Revolution and Napoleon. Her books have been translated into fourteen languages. She was President of the American Historical Association in 2002 and awarded the Nancy Lyman Roelker Award for graduate mentorship by the American Historical Association in 2010. She won distinguished teaching awards at UC Berkeley (1977) and UCLA (2013). Her most recent book History: Why It Matters was published in 2018.