COL E. John Gregory, Ph.D.

COL E. John Gregory is a professor at the U.S. Military Academy and head of the Department of English and World Languages (DEWL) at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. He most recently served as the program director of the Chinese Language and Area Studies Program in the Department of Foreign Languages (now DEWL) as well as director of the Center for Languages, Cultures and Regional Studies.

He received his Ph.D. in late imperial Chinese history from Georgetown University in 2015; his LL.M. in military and international law from The Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School in 2010; his J.D. from the University of Florida in 2001; and his B.S. in Chinese and French from the United States Military Academy in 1995. He served as an aviation officer, platoon leader and Chinook pilot in A/7-101, Fort Campbell, Kentucky, before serving in Korea and deploying twice to Iraq, where he served as the chief of military justice for U.S. Forces-Iraq and III Corps in 2010.

Previously, he was a Fulbright fellow and a visiting scholar for the Institute of History and Philology at Academia Sinica in Taiwan (2013-14). COL. Gregory has served as the primary adviser on numerous U.S.-China exchanges and military-to-military events. He has also published numerous articles and made presentations on the topics of law, Chinese discourse, language learning, defense, as well as Chinese history, society, politics and language.