Thomas Hunt

Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin, 2007

J.D., Baylor University School of Law, 2003

B.A. in Government, The University of Texas at Austin, 2000

Book Series Editor, Terry and Jan Todd Series on Physical Culture and Sport, The University of Texas Press(2015 - Present)

Treasurer, North American Society for Sport History(2014 - Present)

Editorial Board Member, Journal of Sport History(2012 - Present)

Editoral Team Member, International Journal of the History of Sport(2011 - 2025)

Hunt, T.M.. (2026). Fight Like a Machine: The Combat Future of the Human Body. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.

Duckworth, A., Krieger, J. & Hunt, TM. (2020). Preventing the Biological Bomb: The Impact of Covid-19 on Security at Sporting Events. In P. M. Pedersen, B. J. Ruihley, & B. Li (eds.). Sport and the Pandemic: Perspectives on Covid-19’s Impact on the Sport Industry (pp. 33–40): Routledge.

Murtha, R., Heffernan, C. & Hunt, TM. (2020). Building American Supermen? Bernarr MacFadden, Benito Mussolini and American Fascism in the 1930s. Sport in Society (in press).

Hunt, TM. & Duckworth, A. (2019). The Russian Doping Scandal in the Context of Global Political Relations. In Jörg Krieger & Stephan Wassong (eds.). Dark Sides of Sport (pp. 93–106): Common Ground Publishing.

Hunt, TM. & Hao, YA. (2019). Sporting Exchanges Between China and the United States, 1980-1984: Inevitable Politics and Excessive Political Strings. International Journal of the History of Sport, 36(9-10), 854–75.

Duckworth, A. & Hunt, TM. (2019). Espionage in the Eternal City: The CIA, Ukrainian Émigrés, and the 1960 Rome Olympic Games. Journal of Intelligence History.

Hunt, TM. (2018). Sport and American Foreign Policy during the 1960s. In T. Rider & K. Witherspoon (Eds.). Defending the American Way of Life: Sport, Culture, and the Cold War. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press.

Duckworth, A. & Hunt, TM. (2017). Learning the American Way: Sports International and American Soft Power. International Journal of the History of Sport.

Hunt, TM. (2017). WADA and Doping in World Sport. Oxford Handbook of Sports History (Edited by R. Edelman and W. Wilson). New York: Oxford University Press.

Duckworth, A. & Hunt, TM. (2016). Protecting the Games: The International Olympic Committee and Security, 1972-1984. Olympika: The Journal of Olympic Studies.

Hunt, TM. & Todd, J. (2015). Powerlifting’s Watershed: Frantz v. United States Powerlifting, the Legal Case that Changed the Nature of a Sport. Sport and the Law: Historical and Cultural Intersections. Fayetteville: Edited by SO Regalado and SK Fields. University of Arkansas Press.

Hunt, TM. (2015). Anti-Doping Policy Before 1999" In V Møller, I Waddington, and JM Hoberman (eds). Routledge Handbook of Drugs and Sport. New York: Routledge.

Kioussis, G. & Hunt, TM. (2015). Perceptions of the American(ized) Other in East German Elite Sport, 1966-1977: An Interpretive Analysis. Journal of Sport History, 42(2).

Gleaves, J. & Hunt, TM (eds). (2015). A Global History of Doping in Sport: Drugs, Policy, and Politics. New York: Routledge.

Hunt, TM., Dimeo, P., Hemme, F. & Mueller, A. (2014). Doping and the Health of Athletes during the Cold War: A Comparative Analysis of the Two Sides of the Iron Curtain. International Journal of the History of Sport.

Hunt, TM. (2011). Drug Games: The International Olympic Committee and the Politics of Doping, 1960-2008. Austin: The University of Texas Press.

Book Project - Fight Like a Machine: The Combat Future of the Human Body (in press with the University of Oklahoma Press; Expected Publication Date: 2025).
Fight Like a Machine: The Combat Future of the Human Body offers an interdisciplinary examination of how emerging technologies are reshaping the role of the human body in military conflict. Drawing on scholarship in the fields of military history, kinesiology, and defense studies, Thomas M. Hunt argues that the traditional paradigm of physical prowess in warfare is being eclipsed by a new model of human-machine integration. The book’s central thesis is that the traditional image of the soldier—defined by physical strength, speed, and endurance—is being reshaped by digital tools, robotics, and artificial intelligence. As seen in Ukraine and elsewhere, success in today’s wars demand cognitive agility and technological fluency alongside brute military force. This transformation, the book argues, demands a rethinking of recruitment, training, and performance standards in the U.S. armed services.

1968 U.S. Olympic Team Oral History Project
H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports.

The Geopolitics of Sports – Stratfor

Guy Lewis Award for Contributions to the Field of Sport History, North American Society for Sport History (2023)

Dean's Distinguished Faculty Fellow, College of Education, University of Texas at Austin (2020 - 2021)

Teaching Excellence Award, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education (2015)

Summer Research Assignment Award, The University of Texas at Austin, Graduate School Faculty Development Program (2013)

Journal of Sport History Best Article Award - "American Sport Policy and the Cultural Cold War: The Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Years," 33 no. 3 (2006): 273-297, North American Society for Sport History

Drug Games: The International Olympic Committee and the Politics of Doping, Global Sport and Olympic Studies Center, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland (2016)

Sport and International Relations, Penn State University, Happy Valley, PA (2016)

The Performance-Enhanced Body, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, New York, NY (2015)

Yuxiang "Andrew" Hao, Ph.D., 2020 (Supervisor)

Lauren Osmer, Ph.D., 2019 (Supervisor)

Alec Hurley, Ph.D. (Supervisor)

Ryan Murtha, Ph.D. (Supervisor)

Sam Schelfhout, Ph.D. (Supervisor)