Amy Dru Stanley Explained

Amy Dru Stanley
Doctoral Students:	Rebecca Roiphe
Alma Mater:	Princeton University Yale University
Spouse:	Craig Becker
Workplaces:	University of California, Irvine University of Chicago
Discipline:	American history, women's history
Sub Discipline:	Emancipation, labor issues
Children:	2
Awards:	Frederick Jackson Turner Award (1999)

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

• 1999 Frederick Jackson Turner Award
• 1999 Morris D. Forkosch Award^[5]
• 1999 Avery O. Craven Award^[6]
• 1999 Frederick Douglass Prize, Honorable Mention^[7]

Publications

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• none . Stanley . Amy Dru . Instead of waiting for the Thirteenth Amendment: the war power, slave marriage, and inviolate human rights . . 115 . 3 . 732–765 . 10.1086/ahr.115.3.732 . 10.1086/ahr.115.3.732 . June 2010 . free . Pdf.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Department of History | the University of Chicago . 2009-11-09 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20091128215101/http://history.uchicago.edu/faculty/stanley.shtml . 2009-11-28 .
2. Web site: Amy Dru Stanley, Associate Professor in History and the College. Harms. William. University of Chicago Chronicle. University of Chicago.
3. Web site: Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching . 2016-04-03 . 2012-09-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120919233910/http://www.uchicago.edu/about/accolades/quantrell.shtml . dead .
4. News: Stevie Wonder Arrested . The New York Times . February 15, 1985.
5. Web site: Archive | the University of Chicago Record | the University of Chicago.
6. Web site: Organization of American Historians: OAH Awards and Prizes . 2010-05-02 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101206002120/http://www.oah.org/activities/awards/craven/winners.html . 2010-12-06 .
7. Web site: Department of History | the University of Chicago . 2009-11-09 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20091128215101/http://history.uchicago.edu/faculty/stanley.shtml . 2009-11-28 .