Amy Dru Stanley is an American

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

Biography

She graduated from

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...

and from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...

with a Ph.D. She taught at the

University of California, Irvine The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine) is a public land-grant research university in Irvine, California. One of the ten campuses of the University of California system, UCI offers 87 undergraduate degrees and 129 graduate and p ...

. She teaches at the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chic ...

. 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

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, 1985 she was arrested, along with a group of local scholars and Stevie Wonder, during a protest against

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at the

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n embassy in

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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

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References

21st-century American historians Princeton University alumni Yale University alumni University of California, Irvine faculty University of Chicago faculty Living people American women historians 21st-century American women writers Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-historian-stub