Jane Hunter was appointed Associate Dean of the College in August 2006.

A professor of history, Jane Hunter came to Lewis & Clark in 1990 from Colby College and has been Chair of the History Department, Director of the Gender Studies Program, and for one year Interim Chair of the Art Department. She grew up in a large combined family in Hanover, New Hampshire and has undergraduate and graduate degrees in American Studies from Yale University. Her first book, Gospel of Gentility: American Women Missionaries in Turn-of-the-Century China (1984) won Yale University Press’s Governors’ Award, and her second, How Young Ladies Became Girls: The Victorian Origins of American Girlhood (2002) the Outstanding Book prize from the History of Education Society. She and her family lived in Shanghai during 2003-04, where she held a Fulbright lecturing grant at East China Normal University, and she has served as chair of the selection committee for Fulbright lecturers for China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. During the summer of 2005, she participated in an NEH/AHA seminar, “Rethinking America in Global Perspective,” and she is currently researching the history of the Peace Corps in the Philippines.