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Paul A. Gilje

George Lynn Cross Research Professor
United States History

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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