Education
Sarah was trained at Oxford University and the University of Pennsylvania.
Sarah Knott
Sarah received a Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in 1999.
Sarah was trained at the University of Pennsylvania.
(Did women have an Enlightenment? This path-breaking volum...)
Did women have an Enlightenment? This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the controversial, innovative role played by women and gender issues in the age of light.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1403904936/?tag=2022091-20
2005
(In the wake of American independence, it was clear that t...)
In the wake of American independence, it was clear that the new United States required novel political forms. Less obvious but no less revolutionary was the idea that the American people needed a new understanding of the self.
https://www.amazon.com/Sensibility-American-Revolution-Sarah-Knott-dp-0807831980/dp/0807831980/?tag=2022091-20
2009
(Welcome to a work of history unlike any other. Mothering ...)
Welcome to a work of history unlike any other. Mothering is as old as human existence. But how has this most essential experience changed over time and cultures? What is the history of maternity―the history of pregnancy, birth, the encounter with an infant? Can one capture the historical trail of mothers? How? In Mother Is a Verb, the historian Sarah Knott creates a genre all her own in order to craft a new kind of historical interpretation.
https://www.amazon.com/Mother-Verb-Unconventional-Sarah-Knott/dp/0374213585/?tag=2022091-20
2019
Sarah was trained at Oxford University and the University of Pennsylvania.
After training at Oxford University, Sarah was a postdoctoral fellow on the international London-based ‘Women, Gender and Enlightenment’ project. She has also served as both Associate and Acting Editor of the American Historical Review, the American historical profession’s flagship journal.
Sarah Knott has received numerous fellowships for her work from institutions such as the Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University; Harvard University; the American Philosophical Society; the College of Physicians of Philadelphia; and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Her first book explored how sensibility, a way of being that celebrated human sympathy, was central to the American Revolution. Sensibility and the American Revolution suggested that revolutionaries sought the transformation of citizens and society, as much as to create new republican forms of government.
Her underlying curiosity in how we experience change, how we feel our way through events, unfolds through two fields of research. Witnessing the Age of Revolutions, 1776-1804 explores first-person narratives of events in the United States, France and Saint Domingue, as a means of telling the cultural history of the Age of Revolutions.
The other research is more intimate in nature and more innovative in method. Mother Is a Verb is a history of childbearing in Britain and North American since the seventeenth century: based on anecdote - what can be drawn out from the shards and fragments of the archives - and composed in the form of a first-person essay.
Sarah is currently an Associate Professor of History at Indiana University, where she teaches courses in early American and Atlantic history, on the history of gender and maternity, and on the methods of history. She is also a Research Fellow of the Kinsey Institute and an elected member of the Editorial Board of Past and Present.
(Did women have an Enlightenment? This path-breaking volum...)
2005(In the wake of American independence, it was clear that t...)
2009(Welcome to a work of history unlike any other. Mothering ...)
2019