Amy Stanley

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.{{cite web|title=AMY STANLEY|url=https://history.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/core-faculty/amy-stanley.html|access-date=June 11, 2021|publisher=Northwestern University}} In 2007, she became the Wayne V. Jones II Research Professor in History at Northwestern University.

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){{Cite journal|last=Curtis|first=Paula R.|date=Dec 1, 2021|title=Taking the Fight for Japan's History Online: The Ramseyer Controversy and Social Media|url=https://apjjf.org/2021/22/Curtis.html|journal=The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus|volume=19|issue=22}} 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 of National University of Singapore, 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."{{Cite web|title="Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War": The Case for Retraction on Grounds of Academic Misconduct|url=https://apjjf.org/2021/5/ConcernedScholars.html|access-date=2021-12-01|website=The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus|date=March 2021 }} As a result Stanley has also stated that she was the subject of “oblique threats.”{{Cite web|title=Harvard institute calls on journal to address 'comfort women' paper issues|url=https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2021/03/23/national/diplomacy/comfort-history-Harvard/20210323182600288.html|access-date=2021-12-01|website=koreajoongangdaily.joins.com|date=23 March 2021 |language=en}}

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.{{Citation|title=Drinking with Historians - Season 2, Episode 11 (Amy Stanley) 6:30- 9:30| date=29 May 2021 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIPD5bI4pZE&list=PLvTW8ARBmW023NQo5vzbByu6Bzk18mCnW&index=13|pages=|language=en|access-date=2021-12-02}} Stanley did not start learning Japanese until she began her post-secondary education at Harvard University.{{Cite web|title=Learning a Language|url=https://www.amy-stanley.com/blog-1/learning-a-language|access-date=2021-12-02|website=Amy Stanley|language=en-US}} 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.{{Cite web|title=About|url=https://www.amy-stanley.com/about|access-date=2021-12-02|website=Amy Stanley|language=en-US}}

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All publication can be accessed through Stanley's CV on the Northwestern University website [https://history.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/core-faculty/amy-stanley.html here].

• {{cite book |last = Stanley |first = Amy |year = 2012 |title = Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan |publisher = University of California Press |isbn = 978-0520270909}}
• {{cite book |last = Stanley |first = Amy |year = 2020 |title = Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World |publisher = Scribner |isbn = 978-1501188527}}

• “‘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.

• “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 link to article]

• Baillie Gifford Podcast ([https://open.spotify.com/episode/3eX2cQfDVuX66Z5IFHlB07 Episode 5])
• [https://asianreviewofbooks.com/content/arb-podcast-with-amy-stanley-author-of-stranger-in-the-shoguns-city-a-japanese-woman-and-her-world/ Asian Review of Books Podcast]
• [https://meijiat150.arts.ubc.ca/episode-25-dr-amy-stanley-northwestern/ Meiji at 150 Podcast]
• [https://podcasts.apple.com/lu/podcast/amy-stanley-stranger-in-shoguns-city-japanese-woman/id426133640?i=1000498284211 New Books in East Asian Studies Podcast]

• 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{{Cite web|last=Anyaso|first=Hilary Hurd|date=April 2021|title=Historian Amy Stanley wins literary awards for 'Stranger in the Shogun's City': Receives 2021 PEN and National Book Critics Circle Awards for biography|url=https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2021/03/amy-stanley-national-book-critics-circle-award/|url-status=live|website=Northwestern Now|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210329170750/https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2021/03/amy-stanley-national-book-critics-circle-award/ |archive-date=2021-03-29 }}
• Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography, 2021{{Cite web|date=2020-06-09|title=PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography|url=https://pen.org/pen-bograd-weld-award-biography/|access-date=2021-12-02|website=PEN America|language=en}}
• Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography, 2021{{Cite web|title=Finalist: Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World, by Amy Stanley|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/amy-stanley|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210612015017/https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/amy-stanley |archive-date=2021-06-12 }}
• Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize, 2020{{Cite web|date=November 2020|title=The Baillie Gifford Prize Shortlist Weekly Round Up: Stranger in the Shogun's City|url=http://blavatnikfoundation.org/the-baillie-gifford-prize-shortlist-weekly-round-up-stranger-in-the-shoguns-city/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128101259/http://blavatnikfoundation.org/the-baillie-gifford-prize-shortlist-weekly-round-up-stranger-in-the-shoguns-city/ |archive-date=2020-11-28 }}

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