Lynn Hunt is a Distinguished Research Professor and Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History, Emerita,  University  of  California,  Los  Angeles,  United States of America. Her research interests cover: the origin of human rights and religious toleration in the eighteenth century,  the  French  Revolution,  historical  epistemology,  gender  relations.  Lynn A. Hunt has (co)authored The Family Romance of the French Revolution (1992), Inventing Human Rights (2007), Measuring Time: Making History (2008), The Book that Changed Europe (2010), Writing History in the Global Era (2014).