Amy Stanley Explained

Amy Stanley
Occupation:Professor of History,
Northwestern University
Nationality:American
Alma Mater:Harvard University
Subject:Early modern Japanese history; gender history
Notable Works:Stranger in the Shogun's City (2020)
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Awards:National Book Critics Circle Award
PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award

Amy Stanley is an American historian of early modern Japan. In 2007, Stanley began teaching in the Department of History at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on Japanese history, global history, and women's/gender history.[1] She is best known for her most book , which received the National Book Critics Circle Award[2] and the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for biography,[3] and was a finalist for both the Baillie Gifford Prize[4] and Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.[5]

Academic career

Stanley received her BA from Harvard University in East Asian Studies in 1999 and her PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard in 2007.[6] In 2007, she became the Wayne V. Jones II Research Professor in History at Northwestern University.

Harassment and controversy

She has received harassment from Japanese internet right-wing communities (commonly known as netto uyoku ネット右翼, or neto uyo ネトウヨ for short)[7] and Japanese and Korean right-wing scholars due to her criticism on how the controversial issue of Korean comfort women of WWII has been written about by academics. Alongside Hannah Shepherd of Cambridge University, Sayaka Chatani of National University of Singapore, David Ambaras of North Carolina State University, and Chelsea Szendi Schieder of Aoyama Gakuin University, Stanley was one of five Japanese Studies scholars who posted a critical rebuttal against J. Mark Ramseyer’s claims in The Asia Pacific Journal entitled “'Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War': The Case for Retraction on Grounds of Academic Misconduct."[8] As a result Stanley has also stated that she was the subject of “oblique threats.”[9]

Personal life

Stanley’s interest in Japan was first sparked when she interacted with Japanese post-doctoral students who worked alongside her father at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Stanley did not start learning Japanese until she began her post-secondary education at Harvard University.[10] Under the guidance of her advisor Harold Bolitho she was encouraged to pursue her research in early modern Japan.

Stanley currently lives in Evanston, Illinois with her husband, two sons, and dog. Her hobbies include pottery, reading, and learning about historical figures from the nineteenth-century.[11]

Publications

All publication can be accessed through Stanley's CV on the Northwestern University website here.

Books

Journal articles

Periodicals

Podcasts and interviews

Awards and accolades

References

  1. Web site: Amy Stanley: Department of History - Northwestern University. 2021-12-02. history.northwestern.edu. en.
  2. Web site: Hurd Anyaso . Hilary . Historian Amy Stanley wins literary awards for 'Stranger in the Shogun's City' . Northwestern University . June 11, 2021 . April 9, 2021.
  3. Web site: 2021-04-08. Announcing the 2021 PEN America Literary Awards Winners. 2021-06-14. PEN America. en.
  4. Web site: The Baillie Gifford Prize 2020 shortlist announced . . June 11, 2021 . 2020.
  5. Web site: Finalist: Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World, by Amy Stanley (Scribner) . Pulitzer Prize . June 11, 2021.
  6. Web site: AMY STANLEY. June 11, 2021. Northwestern University.
  7. Curtis. Paula R.. Dec 1, 2021. Taking the Fight for Japan's History Online: The Ramseyer Controversy and Social Media. The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus. 19. 22.
  8. Web site: "Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War": The Case for Retraction on Grounds of Academic Misconduct. 2021-12-01. The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus. March 2021 .
  9. Web site: Harvard institute calls on journal to address 'comfort women' paper issues. 2021-12-01. koreajoongangdaily.joins.com. 23 March 2021 . en.
  10. Web site: Learning a Language. 2021-12-02. Amy Stanley. en-US.
  11. Web site: About. 2021-12-02. Amy Stanley. en-US.
  12. Web site: Anyaso. Hilary Hurd. April 2021. Historian Amy Stanley wins literary awards for 'Stranger in the Shogun's City': Receives 2021 PEN and National Book Critics Circle Awards for biography. live. Northwestern Now. https://web.archive.org/web/20210329170750/https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2021/03/amy-stanley-national-book-critics-circle-award/ . 2021-03-29 .
  13. Web site: 2020-06-09. PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. 2021-12-02. PEN America. en.
  14. Web site: Finalist: Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World, by Amy Stanley. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20210612015017/https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/amy-stanley . 2021-06-12 .
  15. Web site: November 2020. The Baillie Gifford Prize Shortlist Weekly Round Up: Stranger in the Shogun's City. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20201128101259/http://blavatnikfoundation.org/the-baillie-gifford-prize-shortlist-weekly-round-up-stranger-in-the-shoguns-city/ . 2020-11-28 .

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