Megan Hunt

Megan Hunt is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Edinburgh, where she serves as the Director of Undergraduate Programmes in History, Classics and Archaeology. Her teaching and research mostly explore intersections between the civil rights movement, white liberalism, and Hollywood film, reflected in her book, Southern by the Grace of God: Race, Religion, and Civil Rights in Hollywood’s South (2024).  She has also written about the place and significance of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the wider African American civil rights movement in British schools, culminating in articles in the Journal of American Studies and The Conversation.