| Amy Dru Stanley | |
| Doctoral Students: | Rebecca Roiphe |
| 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) |
| Education: | Princeton University (BA) Yale University (PhD) |
Amy Dru Stanley is an American historian of American history, women's history, and emancipation.
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.