Recent activities: review of Victoria de Grazia, Irresistible Empire (in Diplomatic History 31 [April 2007]: 325-29); post on "Empire, Hegemony, and the U.S. Policy Mess" to HNN (21 May 2007);  "Reflections on SHAFR at Forty," Diplomatic History 31 (June 2007): 401-405;  address on University Day, UNC-CH, "International Studies to What End?" 12 October 2007; “Author’s Response [to four reviews]” in “American Ascendancy Roundtable,” H-Diplo (10 December 2007); Stanley Kaplan Visiting Professor of American Foreign Policy, Williams College (fall term 2008);  review of Andrew Bacevich, The Limits of Power on H-Diplo (8 December 2008); Foreword to David W. Mulldune, The Mailman Went UA: A Vietnam Memoir (2009); review of Joseph Fry, Debating Vietnam (in The Historian, 71 [Spring 2009]:  109-110);  post on "Obama’s foreign policy in light of The American Ascendancy" to UNC Press blog (8 May 2009).  More on publications More on academic and public service Up-to-date vita email contact	Michael H. Hunt             author and historian
	Michael Hunt is the Everett H. Emerson professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Now a free-lance historian, he maintains broad and varied interests in U.S. foreign relations and international/global history including an active program of research and writing. Born into a military family, he spent a part of his youth abroad -- in Japan, Turkey, and Vietnam.  After taking his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University (1965), he did his doctoral work in the history department at Yale (Ph.D. 1971) while also spending substantial time on Taiwan and in Italy and Iran.  He taught at Yale and Colgate before moving to North Carolina in 1980. His publications fall into three overlapping clusters: U.S. involvement in eastern Asia (especially China and Vietnam); twentieth-century U.S. foreign relations; and contemporary global history.  Over his four decades of professional activity, he has authored seven books (all but one still in print) and edited three (two still in print) as well as many articles. His most recent book is The American Ascendancy: How the United States Gained and Wielded Global Dominance.  It won the Choice Outstanding Academic Title award for 2007 and appeared in a paper edition in early 2009. More information, including reviews and excerpts, is available on the UNC Press and Amazon websites. A new edition of Hunt's widely read Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy appeared in early 2009. For details see the Yale University Press  website. His latest volume, A Vietnam War Reader: American and Vietnamese Perspectives (UNC Press), is now in production and will appear in spring 2010.
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