Amy Dru Stanley

Departmental Website:
https://history.uchicago.edu/directory/Amy-Dru-Stanley

Amy Dru Stanley is a historian of the modern U.S, focusing on slavery and emancipation, human rights,labor, and law. She is completing a book titled The Antislavery Ethic and the Spirit of Commerce: An American History of Human Rights, and is the author of From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation. She was jury chair for the Pulitzer Prize in history, in 2018. 

Amy Dru Stanley

  • Title: Associate Professor of History, Law, and the College
  • Education: PhD, Yale University
  • Joined UChicago Faculty: 1998
  • adstanle@uchicago.edu

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Expertise

20th Century U.S. History, African American history, Feminism, Founding period, Gender, Human rights, Labor Law, U.S. History