Eileen Hunt
Political Science
Professor
- History of Political Thought:聽
- Enlightenment
- American
- 贵别尘颈苍颈蝉迟听
- 尝颈产别谤补濒听
- International Political Thought
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) in modern political thought
- Political Theory
- Comparative Political Theory
Hunt in the News
NPR
Audio
October 31, 2025
Director Guillermo del Toro’s new movie adapts Mary Shelley’s horror classic, Frankenstein. It comes as the world is grappling with a new unpredictable creation: artificial intelligence. Includes guest Eileen Hunt, professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame and author of the 2020 book “Artificial Life After Frankenstein.”
Newsweek
January 15, 2025
"Trump could get a Reagan-like boost in support if there is a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian hostage crisis," said Eileen M. Hunt, Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame.
"Although President Reagan may have received a boost in presidential approval—rally around the flag effect—from the Israel hostage crisis in the 1980s, the country was not in era of political polarization," said Darren Davis, Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame.
The New York Review
February 10, 2021
Addressing Shelley’s novel and the ethics of current artificial intelligence technology, Eileen Hunt Botting poses provocative questions in Artificial Life After “Frankenstein” about the rights of the man–made robots that now can match humanity in many things but not—so far—consciousness.