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Not to be confused with the American historian Amy Stanley.
Amy Dru Stanley
Spouse Craig Becker
Children2
Awards Frederick Jackson Turner Award (1999)
Academic background
Alma mater Princeton University
Yale University
Academic work
DisciplineAmerican history, women's history
Sub-disciplineEmancipation, labor issues
Institutions University of California, Irvine
University of Chicago
Doctoral students Rebecca Roiphe

Amy Dru Stanley is an American historian of American history, women's history, and emancipation.

Biography

She graduated from Princeton University and from Yale University with a Ph.D. She taught at the University of California, Irvine. She teaches at the University of Chicago. [1] [2]

She studies American history, centering on women, emancipation, and labor issues. She recently won a Quantrell Award from the University of Chicago for excellence in undergraduate teaching. [3]

On Valentine's Day, 1985 she was arrested, along with a group of local scholars and Stevie Wonder, during a protest against apartheid at the South African embassy in Washington, D.C. [4]

She is married to Craig Becker, who is the Co-General Counsel of the AFL-CIO, and resides in Washington, DC with him and their two sons.

Awards

Publications

  • Stanley, Amy Dru (1998), "From bondage to contract: wage labor, marriage and the market", in Stanley, Amy Dru (ed.), The age of slave emancipation, Cambridge University Press, ISBN  9780521635264. Preview.
  • Stanley, Amy Dru (2002), "Marriage, property, and class", in Hewitt, Nancy A. (ed.), A companion to American women's history, Wiley-Blackwell, ISBN  9780631212522. Preview.
  • Stanley, Amy Dru (1998), "The right to possess the faculties that God has given: possessive individualism, slave women, and abolitionist thought", in Halttunen, Karen; Perry, Lewis (eds.), Moral problems in American life: new perspectives on cultural history, Cornell University Press, ISBN  9780801483509. Preview.
  • Stanley, Amy Dru (1997), "Conjugal bonds and wage labor: the rights of contract in the age of emancipation", in Maschke, Karen J. (ed.), Women and the American legal order, Taylor & Francis, ISBN  9780815325154. Preview.
  • Stanley, Amy Dru (June 2010). "Instead of waiting for the Thirteenth Amendment: the war power, slave marriage, and inviolate human rights". The American Historical Review. 115 (3): 732–765. doi: 10.1086/ahr.115.3.732. JSTOR  10.1086/ahr.115.3.732. Pdf.

References

  1. ^ "Department of History | the University of Chicago". Archived from the original on 2009-11-28. Retrieved 2009-11-09.
  2. ^ Harms, William. "Amy Dru Stanley, Associate Professor in History and the College". University of Chicago Chronicle. University of Chicago.
  3. ^ "Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching". Archived from the original on 2012-09-19. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
  4. ^ "Stevie Wonder Arrested". The New York Times. February 15, 1985.
  5. ^ "Archive | the University of Chicago Record | the University of Chicago".
  6. ^ "Organization of American Historians: OAH Awards and Prizes". Archived from the original on 2010-12-06. Retrieved 2010-05-02.
  7. ^ "Department of History | the University of Chicago". Archived from the original on 2009-11-28. Retrieved 2009-11-09.


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