Alice W. Hunt
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible

B.S., University of Montevallo (1978)
M.T.S., M.A., Ph.D., Vanderbilt University (1996, 1999, 2003)

Email: Alice.W.Hunt@vanderbilt.edu

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Alice Hunt serves as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and as faculty in the Hebrew Bible area. Her teaching and research interests are in Second Temple studies, historiography, priesthood, and the intersection of social issues and the Hebrew Bible. She also studies the relationship between gender issues and the academy.

She is author of Zadokites (London: T&T Clark/Continuum, forthcoming) as well as a number of articles. She is editing several volumes related to critical issues in Second Temple studies. Her current book project, tentatively titled Historiography: What We Know and When We Knew It, will examine the necessity for acknowledging the importance of history in all areas of biblical studies and will provide a methodological framework for contemporary historiographic work.

Ordained in the National Baptist tradition, she is involved in community education. Her guild involvement includes serving on the AAR Board of Directors, chairing the AAR Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession, and chairing the SBL section on Social-Scientific Studies of the Second Temple Period.