BIOGRAPHY
Constance (Tramm) Hunt retired following fall 2023 after more than 30 years of teaching and scholarship in James Madison College.
Dr. Hunt's special interests include constitutionalism and law, literature and politics, and the history of political theory, including women and political philosophy. Her dissertation is entitled, The Orbit of Politics: A Study of Aristotle, Machiavelli and The Federalist on the Size of the Political Community. She served as Assistant Dean from 2003-2006, Director of Academic Affairs from 1998-2003, Director of Institutional Planning from 1996-1998 and Bradley Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow for 1995-97. She published The Origins of National Identity in Shakespeare's Henry V in Perspectives on Political Science, Summer 2007, and The Persistence of Theocracy: Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter in Winter 2009. In 2019, she published, “Knowledge of Death in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go” in Science Fiction and Political Philosophy, ed., Timothy McCranor and Steven Michels, Rowman & Littlefield.
In 2010, Professor Hunt began co-directing the Interdisciplinary and Teaching Fellows Program (IIT), a joint initiative between James Madison College and the MSU Graduate School, and which received a Teagle and Sloan Foundation grant in 2012. She received the 2012 MSU Alumni Club of Mid-Michigan Quality in Undergraduate Teaching Awards in recognition of outstanding undergraduate teaching, a Michigan State University All-University Award. And in 2013, she was named one of the Top 15 Distinguished Professors of the Year by the Presidents Council of Michigan. In 2016, she received both the MSU Honors College Sustained Commitment to Honors Students and the Associated Students of Michigan State University (ASMSU) - Senior Class Council Outstanding Faculty Award.
Professor Hunt earned her Ph.D. in political science from Boston College.