Amy Dru Stanley
Amy Dru Stanley is an American historian.
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]
Bibliography
- Stanley, Amy Dru (1998), "From bondage to contract: wage labor, marriage and the market", in Stanley, Amy Dru, The age of slave emancipation, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521635264. Preview.
- Stanley, Amy Dru (2002), "Marriage, property, and class", in Hewitt, Nancy A., 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, 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., 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. Oxford Journals for the American Historical Association via JSTOR. 115 (3): 732–765. doi:10.1086/ahr.115.3.732. JSTOR 10.1086/ahr.115.3.732. Pdf.
Reviews
Amy Dru Stanley's From Bondage to Contract is an extraordinarily nuanced study of the "paradoxes" (ix) of contract as the organizing principle of Gilded Age economic and social relations.[8]
References
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-11-28. Retrieved 2009-11-09.
- ↑ http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/050609/fta-stanley.shtml
- ↑ https://www.uchicago.edu/about/accolades/quantrell.shtml
- ↑ "Stevie Wonder Arrested". The New York Times. February 15, 1985.
- ↑ https://www.uchicago.edu/about/documents/chicagorecord/11-4-99/provostreport.html
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-12-06. Retrieved 2010-05-02.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-11-28. Retrieved 2009-11-09.
- ↑ "Book Review", Law and History Review, Summer 2007 Archived July 6, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
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