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Amy Stanley

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Historian of Japan. Loves dogs. Famous 女史, notorious enemy of all sexual relations.

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Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · 5h

Some people don’t like a moat, you know.

Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · 2d

A scholar accused me of hacking his email and offered me legal immunity if I’d give up my accomplices. Around the same time, I was offered a trip to Japan via superyacht. Sadly, these two things were not connected.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 3d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · Jun 12

Big Asia is here! With thanks to the original AHA panel -
Nile Green, Sakura Christmas, Jeff Wasserstrom, Melissa Macauley - and the other contributors who helped us go even bigger!!! academic.oup.com/ahr/issue/13...

Volume 130 Issue 2 | The American Historical Review | Oxford Academic

The official journal of the American Historical Association. Publishes research that brings together scholarship from every major field of historical study. Articles include original interpretation an...

academic.oup.com

Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · Mar 19

Here is the statement from our administration:

Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · Mar 18

There was never any political concern raised in any discussion I had about this, and I would have been shocked and appalled if there had been. Our faculty supports gender history of all kinds and would not be quiet in the face of this kind of censorship.

Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · Mar 18

We did have a conversation very early this year about the possibility of hosting it, but there were a number of logistical and administrative - not political! - concerns that made it untenable.

Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · Mar 18

I have no idea what happened with other venues, but I do know that Northwestern never agreed to hold the conference and that, crucially, there was no agreement in place when the call for papers went out.

Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · Mar 18

I’m the Director of the Center for Historical Studies at Northwestern and also a gender historian. If I thought for a minute that our administration had cancelled this conference for political reasons I would be complaining, loudly. But this is not an accurate representation of what happened.

Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · Jan 23

New book alert!!!

Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · Jan 14

Can’t wait to read this - more work on Karl Yoneda is always welcome!

Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · Jan 14

Congratulations to the other Chicago-area historian named Amy Stanley!

uchicagohistory.bsky.social @uchicagohistory.bsky.social · Jan 13

In honor of her eminent career as a scholar and mentor, Amy Dru Stanley has been recognized by the American Society of Legal Historians through the establishment of a fellowship in her name: The Amy Dru Stanley Fellowship. Please join us in celebrating this momentous honor for Professor Stanley!

Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · Jan 14

Seriously. I have one more piece of a project on this era and then I’m fleeing all the way back to 1582.

Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · Jan 14

It’s called “revisiting the ‘comfort girls” of report #49: race, sex, and information in Asia’s war for empire” - i think it should be out in AHR by the end of the year (and I don’t think it will really ruin my life)

Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · Jan 14

I just submitted the article that is going to ruin my life!

Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · Dec 12

Also points for the student who said Oshio Heihachiro’s rebellion was “incredible stuff.” Indeed.

Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · Dec 12

Extra points for the student who wrote in her exam that Tokugawa Nariaki was “NOT THE SHOGUN but the daimyo of Mito.”

Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · Dec 7

Looking forward to the new book, though!

Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · Dec 7

I am *so* old school I don’t use any citation management software. I just open a word document, write the citation across the top, and start taking notes 🤷‍♀️

Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · Dec 6

Academic mood swing, from the euphoric high of realizing the dedicated ILL staff managed to get me something hard-to-find on microfiche to the miserable low of actually having to read it on microfiche.

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Chelsea Szendi Schieder @chelseaszendi.bsky.social · Nov 26

Been working on a fictionalized graphic novel based on my research on the student movement in postwar Japan with artist Helene Aldeguer. Will come out in French next autumn…

page from graphic novel
of two women encountering a campus demonstration

Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · Nov 26

Someone just threw an apple!!!!! I have to revise my criteria.

Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · Nov 26

I’m watching the medical one and someone has dramatically punched a wall! But I do know a bit about the world of Japanese hospitals, and I think they should send these insanely complicated surgery cases to Keio rather than attempting them at a midsized private hospital with funding issues.

Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · Nov 26

My favorite is Love Generation - I am old school. And also just old.

Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · Nov 26

Yes, but you could have both listening practice AND a plot where a scarred woman obsessed with electronics falls in love with her long lost brother who is also a sociopath.

Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · Nov 26

I’m glad they’re adding Kimutaku dramas to Netflix. Now they just need to add the ones that are actually good. (Good Luck is a long, boring advertisement for ANA - no one is murdered, no one dramatically eats or throws apples, there is no incest, and no one is jilted at the altar)