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= Amy Stanley = Not to be confused with the American historian Amy Dru Stanley.

Amy Stanley is an American historian of early modern Japan. In 2007, Stanley began teaching in the Department of History at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on Japanese history, global history, and women's/gender history[1]. She is best known for her most recent book Strangers in a Shogun City: A Japanese Woman and Her World, which has received the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for biography, and was a finalist for both the Baillie Gifford Prize and Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.

Within her public facing work, she has contributed to educational podcast episodes and written articles that have been republished in popular news media sites such as Slate.


 * Podcast Interviews:
 * Baillie Gifford Podcast (Episode 5)
 * Asian Review of Books Podcast
 * Meiji at 150 Podcast
 * New Books in East Asian Studies Podcast
 * Slate article: "Writing the History of Sexual Assault in the Age of #MeToo"

She is currently working on a project centering “Global History as Urban History: A View from Edo, The Greatest City in the World,” which situates the social and urban history of Edo within a larger, global context[2].

Personal Life
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[3]. She regularly posts in her blog on her website.

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 has appeared on the YouTube channel Drinking with Historians.


 * Drinking with Historians - Season 2, Episode 11, 29 May 2021.(Amy Stanley)" 6:30- 9:30)

Education
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[4]. 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 and Korean right-wing (netizens) 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 of Harvard University, David Ambaras of North Carolina State University and Chelsea Szendi Schieder of Aoyama Gakuin University, Stanley was one of five Japanese Studies scholars who posted a critical rebuttal against J. Mark Ramseyer’s claims in The Asia Pacific Journal entitled “Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War”: The Case for Retraction on Grounds of Academic Misconduct[5]. As a result Stanley has also stated that she was the subject of “oblique threats.”[6]

Amy's thoughts on the matter can be found in there blog posts:

Breakfast With Trolls

On Contract

Publications[2]
All publication can be accessed through Dr. Stanley's CV on the Northwestern University website here.

Books

 * Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and her World (Scribner, 2020; also U.K., Chatto & Windus, 2020)
 * Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012.

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/Japan Focus (March 2021). https://apjjf.org/2021/5/ConcernedScholars.html
 * “Moving People: Labor and Migration in Tokugawa Japan,” Cambridge History of Japan, vol. 2, ed. David Howell (forthcoming)
 * “Jendā-shi to shite no Tenpō kaikaku to Edo” (“Edo’s Tenpō Reforms as Gender History”). Kokuritsu rekishi minzokugaku hakubutsukan kenkyū hōkoku (March 2021). (Invited submission, under review)
 * “Women in Cities and Towns,” in Gary Leupp, ed., The Tokugawa World (Routledge, 2021).
 * “Everything Has a History: Japanese Bullfrogs,” Perspectives on History: The Newsmagazine of the American Historical Association (September 2020).
 * “Fashioning the Family: A Temple, a Daughter, and a Wardrobe” in Mary Elizabeth Berry and Marcia Yonemoto, eds., What is a Family? Answers from Early Modern Japan (University of California Press, 2019): 174-194.
 * “Maidservants’ Tales: Narrating Domestic and Global History, 1600-1900.” The American Historical Review Vol. 121, No. 2 (April 2016): 437-460.
 * *Winner of the 2016 Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality History Article Prize, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
 * “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.
 * Reprinted in Dolores P. Martinez, ed., Gender and Japanese Society vol. 1. New York: Routledge, 2013.

Popular 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 10/1/18 https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/10/historians-sexual-assault-research-metoo.html

Reviews

 * Review of Laura Nenzi, The Chaos and Cosmos of Kurosawa Tokiko. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. Vol. 77, No. 1 (2017): 245-251.
 * Review of Fabian Drixler, Mabiki: Infanticide and Population Growth in Eastern Japan, 1600-1950. Journal of Asian Studies Vol. 75, No. 1 (2016): 248-250.
 * Review of Martin Dusinberre, Hard Times in the Hometown. The American Historical Review. Vol. 113, No. 2 (2014): 498.
 * Review of Luke Roberts, Performing the Great Peace: Political Space and Open Secrets in Tokugawa Japan. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies Vol. 73, No. 1 (2013): 216-224.
 * Review of Laura Nenzi, Excursions in Identity: Travel and the Intersection of Place, Gender, and Status in Tokugawa Japan. The Journal of Asian Studies Vol. 68, No. 4 (2009): 1296-98.
 * Review of William Lindsey, Fertility and Pleasure: Ritual and Sexual Values in Tokugawa Japan. Monumenta Nipponica Vol. 63, No. 1 (2008): 164-66.
 * Review of Nagano Hiroko, ed., Jendā de yomitoku Edo jidai. Rekishi hyōron Vol. 627 (2002): 89-94. (Japanese)

Awards 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[7]
 * Winner of the National Book Critics’ Circle Award in Biography, 2021[8]
 * Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography, 2021[9]
 * Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography, 2021[10]
 * Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize, 2020[11]