Thomas M. Hunt, J.D., Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education at The University of Texas at Austin. His scholarship explores how physical culture intersects with global political affairs. A previous book of his entitled Drug Games: The International Olympic Committee and the Politics of Doping, 19602008 offered a critical analysis on how the history of performance-enhancement in sport was impacted by Cold War and post-Cold War politics. In his forthcoming (University of Oklahoma Press) Fight Like a Machine: The Combat Future of the Human Body, Hunt expands this focus to the defense and national security arena. In doing so, he argues that emerging technologies are redefining the role of the human body in warfare in ways that necessitate fundamental changes in the way the U.S. military recruits, trains, and plans for future conflicts.
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-19s 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). Powerliftings 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.
"The Lessons of Crisis: Olympic Doping Regulation during the 1980s,” Iron Game History: The Journal of Physical Culture 10, no. 2 (April/May 2008): 12-25. "Sport, Drugs, and the Cold War: The Conundrum of Olympic Doping Policy: 1970-1979," Olympika: The International Journal of Olympic Studies 16 (2007): 19-42. "Countering the Soviet Threat in the Olympic Medals Race," International Journal of the History of Sport 24 (June 2007): 796-818. "American Sport Policy and the Cultural Cold War: The Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Years," Journal of Sport History 33 (Fall 2006): 273-297
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)
