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Professor of History and Women's and Gender Studies, Amherst College
Office: 23 Chapin Hall
Telephone: (413) 542-2287
E-mail: mrhunt@amherst.edu
Personal web site
Degree: Ph.D., New York University (1986)
Field(s) of interest: Early modern European social and intellectual, women, sexuality
Graduate Courses Offered:
Gender and Sexuality in Western Europe, 1500-1800 (Not Online)
Research Interests and Professional Activities:
I'm interested in claims about European exceptionalism in the the early modern period and in European women's activities in the law courts, and currently I'm writing a general book on women in 18th-century Europe that works through some of those themes. I'm also researching women and the British Navy in the late 17th century.
My teaching within Women's and Gender Studies has often centered around the history of sexuality and homosexuality in Europe and North America, or on women and the Enlightenment.
Selected Publications:
The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender and the Family in England 1680-1780 (University of California Press, 1996)
Curricular Crossings: Women's Studies and Area Studies, editor (a web-based anthology about teaching, 2000) | 
