Awards

Titled Professor - 2020

Sally M. Reahard Professorship of History

About Sarah C.Knott

Sarah C. Knott earned her B.A. and DPhil from Oxford University and her M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. She joined the Indiana University (IU) College of Arts and Sciences faculty in 2001 as an assistant professor of history. She was promoted to associate professor in 2008 and full professor in 2020. Knott earned the additional, honorary title of Sally M. Reahard Professor of History in 2020.

A British-born feminist, writer, and historian, Knott’s research interests primarily include early America and the Atlantic world; women, gender, and maternity; the age of revolutions; and the history and life of writing. Her writing and scholarship primarily focus on intersectional histories of gender and culture, especially as embodied and experienced. She seeks to understand the most intimate and various dimensions of large- and small-scale change. She is the author and editor of four books, including Mothering’s Many Labours (2020), Mother is a Verb: An Unconventional History (2019), Sensibility and the American Revolution (2009), and Women, Gender and Enlightenment (2005). Her essays and commentary have appeared in the William & Mary Quarterly, the American Historical Review and Past & Present, as well as in the Guardian, TLS, LARB, and BBC History Magazine.

Throughout her successful career, Knott has earned an array of awards and honors. For example, she was selected as a distinguished lecturer by the Organization of American Histories, offered a Kinsey Institute Fellowship by the College of Arts and Humanities Institute, served as a senior visiting research fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford University, and more.