Margaret Hunt (2)

Margaret Hunt holds an undergraduate degree in music, a master’s degree in theology, and a PhD in history. She spent five years as a feminist and community activist in Boston, Massachusetts; Juneau, Alaska; and the South Bronx, New York City. Today she is a social, cultural and gender historian of early modern Europe with interests that include European overseas trade and settlement, especially in South Asia; early modern practices and discourses of difference, women and the law courts; State formation and the military; the comparative history of Islamic and Christian legal regimes in the early modern period; and identity and class formation in Britain. She joined the faculty of Uppsala University in 2013 after many years teaching in the USA. Her first scholarly book was The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender and the Family in England 1680-1780 (1996), which won the Morris D. Forkosch Prize from the American Historical Association. Her second book was Women in Eighteenth-Century Europe (2010). In 2016, she co-edited a collection of annotated primary documents with Philip Stern, a historian at Duke University, The English East India Company at the Height of Mughal Expansion: A Soldier's Diary of the 1689 Siege of Bombay. She has also written articles and book chapters such as "Hawkers, Bawlers and Mercuries: Women and the London Press in the Early Enlightenment," published in Women and the Enlightenment (1984).