Jonathan Hunt

Jonathan Hunt is an Assistant Professor in the Strategic and Operational Research Department in the U.S. Naval War College’s Center for Naval Warfare Studies. His research examines how nuclear weapons shaped international security affairs and were shaped in kind by regime type, development paradigm, ideological orientation, conventional balances, and strategic culture. He is an expert on the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). Before the U.S. Naval War College, Jonathan was an Assistant Professor of Strategy at the U.S. Air War College from 2021 to 2023 and a Lecturer in Global History at the University of Southampton from 2016 to 2021. He has been a fellow or visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University, the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford, Emory University, and Stanford Law School. He was a Stanton Postdoctoral Fellow in Nuclear Security at RAND Corporation from 2014 to 2015 and a MacArthur Fellow in Nuclear Security at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation from 2012 to 2014. He earned his BA in Plan II Honors, History, and Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies in 2006 and his PhD in History in 2013, both from the University of Texas at Austin.

Bio recorded March 10, 2024