Amy Dru Stanley
American historian
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Biography
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.
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 a 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
- 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.
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.