
COL E. John Gregory
Professor of Chinese
Deputy Department Head
English & World Languages
Colonel E. John Gregory is Professor, USMA, and the deputy department head of the Department of English & World Languages at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. He last served as the program director of the Chinese Language and Area Studies Program in the Department of Foreign Languages (DFL) as well as the director of the Center for Languages, Cultures, and Regional Studies (CLCRS).
He served as an Aviation Officer, Platoon Leader, and Chinook Pilot in A/7-101, Fort Campbell, KY, before deploying to Korea and serving twice in Iraq, where he was the Chief of Military Justice for USFI-I and III Corps in 2010. He was successfully certified as a (full) ACTFL OPI Examination in Chinese in 2018 (not current).
Previously, he was a Fulbright Fellow and a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (2013-14). COL Gregory has served as the primary advisor 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.
In terms of intellectual orientation, he aspires to be a philologist and a sinologist.
Ph.D., Late Imperial Chinese History - Georgetown University
LLM, Military and International Law - The Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School
JD - University of Florida
B.S., Chinese and French - U.S. Military Academy