Biography

She graduated from Princeton University

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

 in 1978, and from Yale University

Yale University

Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

 with a Ph.D. in 1990.
She taught at the University of California, Irvine

University of California, Irvine

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She teaches at the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...

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She studies American history, centering on women, emancipation, and labor issues. She recently won a Quantrell Award from the University of Chicago for excellence in undergraduate teaching.

On Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day

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, 1985 she was arrested, along with a group of local scholars and Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder

Stevland Hardaway Morris , better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist...

, during a protest against apartheid at the South Africa

South Africa

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n embassy in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

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She is married to Craig Becker

Craig Becker

Harold Craig Becker , known professionally as Craig Becker, is a member of the National Labor Relations Board.-Early life and education:...

 and resides in Washington, DC with him and their two sons.

Awards

• 1999 Frederick Jackson Turner Award
  Frederick Jackson Turner Award
  The Frederick Jackson Turner Award, is given each year by the Organization of American Historians for an author's first book on American history.It was started in 1959, by Mississippi Valley Historical Association, as the Prize Studies Award....
  
  
• 1999 Morris D. Forkosch Award
• 1999 Avery O. Craven Award
• 1999 Frederick Douglass Prize, Honorable Mention

Reviews

Amy Dru Stanley's From Bondage to Contract is an extraordinarily nuanced study of the "paradoxes" (ix) of contract as the organizing principle of Gilded Age economic and social relations.

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