Patrick Hunt has been teaching in Humanities at Stanford University for
the past 20 years. His Ph.D. is from the Institute of Archaeology at
University College London, University of London in 1991. He is a
National Lecturer for the Archaeological Institute of America since 2009
and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society since 1989. National
Geographic Society has sponsored some of his archaeology fieldwork. He
appears frequently on PBS, NOVA, National Geographic and History Channel
broadcasts. Hunt has taught a postgraduate course on History of Wine at
Stanford and has lectured at wineries and related venues around the
world, including for the Napa Valley Vintners Association at Meadowood
Resort in St. Helena, Napa Valley.
Among over 100 published articles, he has also elsewhere written
articles on global wine history and mythology as well as written and
published twelve prior books. He has traveled in wine journeys across
five continents and annually spends time in viticultural regions in
France and Italy as well as California. Having studied the cultivation
and multiple purposes of wine and grapes and early agriculture since the
Neolithic, he is also a Research Associate in Archeoethnobotany at the
Institute for EthnoMedicine.
