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

Publications
  • Stanley, Amy Dru (1998), "From bondage to contract: wage labor, marriage and the market", in Stanley, Amy Dru (ed.), The age of slave emancipation, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521635264.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) Preview.
  • Stanley, Amy Dru (2002), "Marriage, property, and class", in Hewitt, Nancy A. (ed.), A companion to American women's history, Wiley-Blackwell, ISBN 9780631212522.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) 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 (eds.), Moral problems in American life: new perspectives on cultural history, Cornell University Press, ISBN 9780801483509.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) Preview.
  • Stanley, Amy Dru (1997), "Conjugal bonds and wage labor: the rights of contract in the age of emancipation", in Maschke, Karen J. (ed.), Women and the American legal order, Taylor & Francis, ISBN 9780815325154.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) 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. 115 (3): 732–765. doi:10.1086/ahr.115.3.732. JSTOR 10.1086/ahr.115.3.732.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) 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
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-11-28. Retrieved 2009-11-09.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. Harms, William. "Amy Dru Stanley, Associate Professor in History and the College". University of Chicago Chronicle. University of Chicago.
  3. "Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching".
  4. "Stevie Wonder Arrested". The New York Times. February 15, 1985.
  5. "Archive | the University of Chicago Record | the University of Chicago".
  6. "Organization of American Historians: OAH Awards and Prizes". Archived from the original on 2010-12-06. Retrieved 2010-05-02.
  7. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-11-28. Retrieved 2009-11-09.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. "Book Review", Law and History Review, Summer 2007 Archived July 6, 2008, at the Wayback Machine


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