Amy Stanley
@astanley711.bsky.social
Historian of Japan. Loves dogs. Famous 女史, notorious enemy of all sexual relations.
This book is *amazing* - highly recommended.
November 5, 2025 at 3:39 PM
This book is *amazing* - highly recommended.
Tessa Morris-Suzuki has posted this essay from 2021 on SSRN. The preface, which is about why it was originally written and why it is being posted four years later, is also interesting.
Koreans in Japan and Ethics in Scholarly Publishing: A Response to Professor J. Mark Ramseyer
Over the past five years, Harvard Professor J. Mark Ramseyer has published a series of articles focussing on controversial issues in Japanese society and histor
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October 26, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Tessa Morris-Suzuki has posted this essay from 2021 on SSRN. The preface, which is about why it was originally written and why it is being posted four years later, is also interesting.
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October 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Congratulations to my Nobel Prize-winning colleague Joel Mokyr, who shows up to serve cake to undergraduates and looks good doing it (pictured here with Yohanan Peteovsky-Stern). We ❤️ you Joel!!!!
October 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Congratulations to my Nobel Prize-winning colleague Joel Mokyr, who shows up to serve cake to undergraduates and looks good doing it (pictured here with Yohanan Peteovsky-Stern). We ❤️ you Joel!!!!
Coming soon - finally!
October 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Coming soon - finally!
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.
Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?
October 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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.
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...
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...
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June 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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...
Nile Green, Sakura Christmas, Jeff Wasserstrom, Melissa Macauley - and the other contributors who helped us go even bigger!!! academic.oup.com/ahr/issue/13...
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.
March 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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.
New book alert!!!
January 23, 2025 at 9:38 PM
New book alert!!!
Congratulations to the other Chicago-area historian named Amy Stanley!
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!
January 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Congratulations to the other Chicago-area historian named Amy Stanley!
I just submitted the article that is going to ruin my life!
January 14, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I just submitted the article that is going to ruin my life!
Extra points for the student who wrote in her exam that Tokugawa Nariaki was “NOT THE SHOGUN but the daimyo of Mito.”
December 12, 2024 at 4:06 PM
Extra points for the student who wrote in her exam that Tokugawa Nariaki was “NOT THE SHOGUN but the daimyo of Mito.”
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.
December 6, 2024 at 4:59 PM
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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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…
November 26, 2024 at 11:11 PM
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…
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)
November 26, 2024 at 10:43 PM
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)
It’s really too much for my poor students that Tokugawa Ienari and Tokugawa Nariaki come up in the same lecture, and one is a shogun and the other isn’t.
November 26, 2024 at 3:42 PM
It’s really too much for my poor students that Tokugawa Ienari and Tokugawa Nariaki come up in the same lecture, and one is a shogun and the other isn’t.
I’ve gotten out of the habit of posting but it’s nice to see people here sharing stuff about Japanese history again!
November 18, 2024 at 4:32 PM
I’ve gotten out of the habit of posting but it’s nice to see people here sharing stuff about Japanese history again!
I thought nothing much was going on but it turns out the most extraordinary things happen here.
March 30, 2024 at 10:41 PM
I thought nothing much was going on but it turns out the most extraordinary things happen here.
It’s always a bad sign when I go to the office and want to sit *under* the desk rather than at it. But the good thing about being on leave is that when I get the “under the desk” feeling I just go home, where I do not have a desk at all.
October 21, 2023 at 1:37 AM
It’s always a bad sign when I go to the office and want to sit *under* the desk rather than at it. But the good thing about being on leave is that when I get the “under the desk” feeling I just go home, where I do not have a desk at all.
Husband showed up at my office window while I was doing Burmese class. He texted, “surely you can say ‘wait husband window.’”
I can’t, but I can say “government, independence, bomb, darkness, fear, corpse, imperialism.”
I can’t, but I can say “government, independence, bomb, darkness, fear, corpse, imperialism.”
October 18, 2023 at 8:32 PM
Husband showed up at my office window while I was doing Burmese class. He texted, “surely you can say ‘wait husband window.’”
I can’t, but I can say “government, independence, bomb, darkness, fear, corpse, imperialism.”
I can’t, but I can say “government, independence, bomb, darkness, fear, corpse, imperialism.”
Among the strange topics I have enough information to address in this new book:
1) the experience of buying and selling various kinds of shoes in Rangoon, 1942-45
2) the wartime role of small Chinese restaurants in Southeast Asia
1) the experience of buying and selling various kinds of shoes in Rangoon, 1942-45
2) the wartime role of small Chinese restaurants in Southeast Asia
October 12, 2023 at 7:51 PM
Among the strange topics I have enough information to address in this new book:
1) the experience of buying and selling various kinds of shoes in Rangoon, 1942-45
2) the wartime role of small Chinese restaurants in Southeast Asia
1) the experience of buying and selling various kinds of shoes in Rangoon, 1942-45
2) the wartime role of small Chinese restaurants in Southeast Asia