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
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, during a protest against
apartheid at the
South African embassy in
Washington, D.C.
She is married to
Craig Becker
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Early life and education ...
, 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
The Frederick Jackson Turner Award, is given each year by the Organization of American Historians for an author's first book on American history.
It was started in 1959, by Mississippi Valley Historical Association, as the Prize Studies Award.
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* 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)
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