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Faculty Fellow

Amy Dru Stanley

Associate Professor of History, Law, and the College; Associate Faculty Member, Law School University of Chicago

Biography

Amy Dru Stanley is a historian of the United States, with particular interest in law, capitalism, freedom and unfreedom, human rights, the relationship between the household and economic life, and the historical experience of moral problems. Her work has appeared in scholarly books and journals, as well as in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Nation, Dissent, Slate, and Jacobin. She has received the Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and the Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring. In 2018, she was the jury chair for the Pulitzer Prize in history.

For more information, please visit her faculty profile.

Project

The Economy and Its Boundaries

2016 – 2018