Amy Dru Stanley
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
- 2009 Quantrell Award