Academic career
Stanley received her BA from Harvard University in East Asian Studies in 1999 and her PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard in 2007. In 2007, she became the Wayne V. Jones II Research Professor in History at Northwestern University.Harassment and controversy
She has received harassment from Japanese internet right-wing communities (commonly known as ''netto uyoku ネット右翼'', or ''neto uyo'' ネトウヨ for short) and Japanese and Korean right-wing scholars due to her criticism on how the controversial issue of Korean comfort women of WWII has been written about by academics. Alongside Hannah Shepherd of Cambridge University, Sayaka Chatani ofPersonal life
Stanley’s interest in Japan was first sparked when she interacted with Japanese post-doctoral students who worked alongside her father at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Stanley did not start learning Japanese until she began her post-secondary education at Harvard University. Under the guidance of her advisor Harold Bolitho she was encouraged to pursue her research in early modern Japan. Stanley currently lives in Evanston, Illinois with her husband, two sons, and dog. Her hobbies include pottery, reading, and learning about historical figures from the nineteenth-century.Publications
All publication can be accessed through Stanley's CV on the Northwestern University websitBooks
* *Journal articles
* “‘Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War’: The Case for Retraction on the Grounds of Academic Misconduct,” with Hannah Shepherd, Sayaka Chatani, David Ambaras, and Chelsea Szendi Scheider. ''The Asia-Pacific Journal'' (March 2021). * “Maidservants’ Tales: Narrating Domestic and Global History, 1600-1900.” ''The American Historical Review'' Vol. 121, No. 2 (April 2016): 437-460. * “Enlightenment Geisha: The Sex Trade, Education, and Feminine Ideals in Early Meiji Japan.” ''The Journal of Asian Studies'' Vol. 72, No. 3 (2013): 539-562. * “Adultery, Punishment, and Reconciliation in Tokugawa Japan,” ''The Journal of Japanese Studies'' Vol. 3, No. 2 (2007): 309-335.Periodicals
* “Writing the History of Sexual Assault in the #MeToo Era,” ''Perspectives on History: The Newsmagazine of the American Historical Association'' (November 2018): 18-20. ** *Republished in Slate 10/1/1Podcasts and interviews
* Baillie Gifford PodcastAwards and accolades
* NEH Faculty Fellowship, 2015-16. * WCAS Distinguished Teaching Award. 2012. * For ''Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World'': ** Winner of the National Book Critics’ Circle Award in Biography, 2021 ** Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography, 2021 ** Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography, 2021 ** Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize, 2020References