Amy Dru Stanley | |
|---|---|
| Spouse | Craig Becker |
| Children | 2 |
| Awards | Frederick Jackson Turner Award (1999) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Princeton University Yale University |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | American history, women's history |
| Sub-discipline | Emancipation, 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.
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."
On Valentine's Day, 1985 she was arrested, along with a group of local scholars. And Stevie Wonder, during protest against apartheid at the South African embassy in Washington, D.C.
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※
- 1999 Frederick Jackson Turner Award
- 1999 Morris D. Forkosch Award
- 1999 Avery O. Craven Award
- 1999 Frederick Douglass Prize, Honorable Mention
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※
- ^ "Department of History | the University of Chicago". Archived from the original on 2009-11-28. Retrieved 2009-11-09.
- ^ Harms, William. "Amy Dru Stanley, Associate Professor in History and the College". University of Chicago Chronicle. University of Chicago.
- ^ "Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching". Archived from the original on 2012-09-19. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
- ^ "Stevie Wonder Arrested". The New York Times. February 15, 1985.
- ^ "Archive | the University of Chicago Record | the University of Chicago".
- ^ "Organization of American Historians: OAH Awards and Prizes". Archived from the original on 2010-12-06. Retrieved 2010-05-02.
- ^ "Department of History | the University of Chicago". Archived from the original on 2009-11-28. Retrieved 2009-11-09.
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