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Amy Stanley | |
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Occupation | Professor of History, Northwestern University |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Harvard University |
Subject | Early modern Japanese history; gender history |
Notable works | Stranger in the Shogun's City (2020) |
Notable awards | National Book Critics Circle Award PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award |
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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 book Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award[2] and the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for biography,[3] and was a finalist for both the Baillie Gifford Prize[4] and Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.[5]