COL E. John Gregory, Ph.D.

COL E. John Gregory is a professor of Chinese and deputy department head in the Department of English & World Languages (DEWL) at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York. 

He previously served as the program director of the Chinese Language and Area Studies program in DEWL (formerly the Department of Foreign Languages) as well as the director of the Center for Languages, Cultures, and Regional Studies at West Point.  

Gregory served as an aviation officer, platoon leader, and Chinook pilot in A/7-101, Fort Campbell, Kentucky, before deploying to Korea and serving twice in Iraq, where he was 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).  

He was a Fulbright Fellow and a visiting scholar at the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (2013-14). 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.