University of Colorado Denver College of Liberal Arts and SciencesUniversity of Colorado Denver

Senior Instructor Rebecca A. Hunt

Who am I?
I am a historian who interprets the history of America and the West within the context of community institutions, such as colleges and museums, which have a strong mandate to their audiences. I am committed to undergraduate and graduate education and the integration of academe and community in the learning process. Specific areas of concentration include women's history, social history, community history, decorative arts, period clothing, and textiles. I work best in a team setting, sharing ideas and responsibility with other professionals. I teach in both the public and traditional history programs. My public history specialty is museum studies. I also teach history of the American West, immigration and ethnicity, methods for secondary social studies teachers and women’s history. My book projects are Neal Forsling: A Woman to Match the Mountains and the memory chapter of a book on the last reunion of the Tenth Mountain Division of the U.S. Army. (Due out in May of 2008).

Employment:
University of Colorado Denver, Senior Instructor, 2005-.
Metropolitan State College of Denver, Visiting Assistant Professor, 2001-2005; Adjunct Professor, Fall 1999-2001; joint appointment in Women’s Studies and History, 2004-05.
Red Rocks Community College, Adjunct Instructor, Sept 1995 - 1999.
Community College of Aurora, Adjunct Instructor, History, 1996-2005.

Education:
Ph.D. University of Colorado, Boulder; August, 1999. Western American Social History/ Community Studies. Dissertation: Urban Pioneers: Continuity and Change in the Ethnic Communities of Two Denver Neighborhoods, 1870-1998.
MLS (Master of Liberal Studies). University of Oklahoma, Norman; May, 1987. Liberal Studies with Museum Emphasis. Thesis: The Gully-Delaney Site: A Sense of Place.
B.A.University of Wyoming, Laramie; May, 1974. Elementary Education.

Departmental and university service:
Chancellor’s Art Committee, 2005- 2007.
Center of Preservation Research, Leadership team, 2007-

Fellowships:
Colorado Endowment for the Humanities: Chautauqua program speaker: 2003- Present, Dr. Rose Kidd Beere, Frontier Physician. Research fellowship, 2002-2004, To pursue preliminary research on the manuscript: Healers on the Hill: The History of Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center. Scholar, 2002-2005, The Globeville Project Scholar, 2005-2006, The Eyes Have It: African-Americans through the Eyes of the American Presidents.
National Endowment for the Humanities, History of the American West with Centennial School, Aurora, CO, 1997.

Publications:
Eric Kiker, Rebecca Hunt, Jason Otero, Book team, The Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center Experience, 2007.
A Century of Healing: The History of Swedish Medical Center, 1905-2005, January,2006.
“Healers on the Hill” and “The First Fifty Years of the History of Swedish Medical
Center,” in Colorado Heritage, Summer 2005.
Bibliographic essay on the history of women's suffrage, co-authored with MarciaGoldstein, Colorado Heritage, Colorado Historical Society, Spring, 1993.
"History of Southwestern Wyoming." Interpretive narrative for the Fossil Country Frontier Museum, Kemmerer, WY. 1990. Co-authored with Geoffrey Hunt.
"Worth the Paper It's Printed On: Preserving our Literary Tradition," in The Prairie
Frontier, Nordland Heritage Foundation, Sioux Falls, SD, 1984

 

 

Contact Information:
You can reach Professor Hunt by email at:
Rebecca.Hunt @cudenver.edu
or by telephone at
303-556-3442