Andrew Hunt

Andrew Emerson Hunt (born 1968) is a Canadian history professor, at the University of Waterloo in Canada. He is also the director of the Tri-University Graduate Program in History.

Life Hunt was born in Calgary, Alberta. He is a descendant of one of the founders of the University of Deseret (the original name of the University of Utah). At age one he was relocated to the United States with his American parents E. K. Hunt and Linda Hunt.

Andrew Hunt grew up around universities, E. K. Hunt is an Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Utah.

Andrew Hunt was raised in California and Utah. On May 11, 1987, Hunt (then an undergraduate) was one of eight student activists protesting South African apartheid who practiced civil disobedience at a meeting of the University of Utah's Institutional Council. The students were demanding that the university divest all of its holdings in corporations having operations in South Africa. Four of the students were arrested; all eight were charged with misdemeanors by the university. However, the students' efforts were successful as the Institutional Council voted one month later to divest.

Hunt received his B.A. from the University of Utah in 1990.