Dr. Gregory Knouff

Gregory Knouff received his B.A. from Temple University and Ph.D. from Rutgers University. Dr. Knouff's area of expertise is colonial and Revolutionary North America, with an emphasis on race, gender, and national identity. He teaches courses on early North America, including American Revolution, the Loyalist Experience, Gender in Early North America, Native North American History, and Africans in the Atlantic World, among others. He also teaches courses on early and modern U.S. military history. He is the author of The Soldiers’ Revolution: Pennsylvanians in Arms and the Forging of Early American Identity (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004, paper 2012) and several articles, including most recently: “Seductive Sedition: New Hampshire Loyalists’ Experiences and Memories of the American Revolutionary Wars” in War, Demobilization, and Memory: The Legacy of War in the Age of Transatlantic Revolutions. Edited by Alan Forrest, Karen Hagemann, and Michael Rowe (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2016) and “’That Abundant Infamous Roach’: Breed and Ruth Batcheller, Moderate Loyalism, Language, and Domestic Power in Revolutionary New Hampshire” in Joseph Moore and Rebecca Brannon, eds., Loyalty & Revolution: Essays in Honor of Robert M. Calhoon (University of South Carolina Press, 2019). These essays are drawn from Prof. Knouff's current book manuscript, “The Enemy Within: Loyalists, Language, Gender, and Power, Revolutionary New Hampshire.”