Sarah Knott

• Associate Professor, Department of History
• Adjunct Associate Professor, American Studies Program
• Associate Editor, American Historical Review

Education

• D.Phil. at University of Oxford, 1999

Contact Information

Ballantine Hall, Rm. 710

(812) 856-0092

Background

I am a British-born scholar of early America and the revolutionary Atlantic world. My research focuses on the nexus of politics, culture and society and how we might understand changing formations of self and identity. My forthcoming book, Sensibility and the American Revolution, examines sensibility—a peculiar and peculiarly late-eighteenth-century form of selfhood—in the turbulent and complex contests of the American revolution. A related set of interests converge around issues of gender and of feminism. Before moving to the United States, I was involved in the London-based interdisciplinary collaborative project on “Feminism and Enlightenment”. At present I am associate editor at the American Historical Review, and expanding my research interests from the United States to the comparative revolutionary histories of France and of Haiti.

Selected Awards

• Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
• Research Fellowship, University of London, "Feminism and Enlightenment: A Comparative History" Project
• Junior Research Fellowship, Oxford University
• Indiana University Outstanding Junior Faculty Award

Research Interests

• Early America
• Women, gender, feminism
• Revolutionary Atlantic world

Courses Recently Taught

• The Atlantic Eighteenth Century
• Revolutions in the 'Age of the Democratic Revolution': America, France, Haiti
• The Body in Early America
• Revolutionary America and the Early Republic
• Women, Gender and Enlightenment

Publication Highlights

Books

[Co-edited with Barbara Taylor] Women, Gender and Enlightenment. Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Sensibility and the American Revolution (forthcoming, October 2008, Omohundro Institute, University of North Carolina Press)

Articles

“Sensibility and the American War for Independence.” American Historical Review 109 (2004): 19-40.