Amy Dru Stanley

Not to be confused with the American historian Amy Stanley.

Amy Dru Stanley
Spouse	Craig Becker
Children	2
Awards	Frederick Jackson Turner Award (1999)
Academic background
Education	Princeton University (BA) Yale University (PhD)
Academic work
Discipline	American history, women's history
Sub-discipline	Emancipation, labor issues
Institutions	University of California, Irvine University of Chicago
Doctoral students	Rebecca Roiphe

Amy Dru Stanley is an American historian of American history, women's history, and emancipation.

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

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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Pdf.