Amy Dru Stanley | |
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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.
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. [1] [2]
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. [3]
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. [4]
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.