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Professor Gilje is a George Lynn Cross Research Professor
whose work focuses on the American Revolution and antebellum
period. His many publications include his recent book,
Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Society
and Culture in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850,
which won two national prizes, including the "best
book" award from the Society for Historians of
the Early American Republic. He has recently published
an edited collection of essays titled Pirates, Jack
Tar, and Memory and has a book under contract with
Cambridge University Press, tentatively titled “To
Swear Like a Sailor”: Language, Meaning, and Culture
in the American Maritime World, 1750-1850. Professor
Gilje is the author of three other monographs and four
other collections of essays and has edited a large encyclopedia
project titled Revolution and the New Nation (1754-1820),
Vol. 3, The Facts on File Encyclopedia of American
History and is finishing another encyclopedia project,
The Encyclopedia of Revolutionary America.
He has presented his research at conferences throughout
the United States and in Europe and has received numerous
grants and fellowships to support his research. Professor
Gilje is an award-winning teacher who offers a wide
variety of courses at both the undergraduate and graduate
levels. He received his Ph.D. from Brown University.
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