Amy Stanley

Amy Stanley
OccupationProfessor of History,
Northwestern University
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHarvard University
SubjectEarly modern Japanese history; gender history
Notable worksStranger in the Shogun's City (2020)
Notable awardsNational Book Critics Circle Award
PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award
Website
www.amy-stanley.com

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]

  1. ^ "Amy Stanley: Department of History - Northwestern University". history.northwestern.edu. Retrieved 2021-12-02.
  2. ^ Hurd Anyaso, Hilary (April 9, 2021). "Historian Amy Stanley wins literary awards for 'Stranger in the Shogun's City'". Northwestern University. Retrieved June 11, 2021.
  3. ^ "Announcing the 2021 PEN America Literary Awards Winners". PEN America. 2021-04-08. Retrieved 2021-06-14.
  4. ^ "The Baillie Gifford Prize 2020 shortlist announced". Baillie Gifford Prize. 2020. Retrieved June 11, 2021.
  5. ^ "Finalist: Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World, by Amy Stanley (Scribner)". Pulitzer Prize. Retrieved June 11, 2021.