Excited to be working with Norton on two new histories of Japan! I have my work cut out for me for approximately the next decade!!
Amy Stanley
@astanley711.bsky.social
Historian of Japan. Loves dogs. Famous 女史, notorious enemy of all sexual relations.
Excited to be giving a talk at a joint Berkeley/Stanford conference on microhistory next week! It’s called “The Cheese and the Dragons: Microhistory and the Problem of Fiction,” and it’s inspired by all the readers who thought my book was a novel. cmems.stanford.edu/events/after...
After Menocchio: The Pasts and Futures of Microhistory (CMEMS Symposium 2026) | Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Please join us for After Menocchio: the Pasts and Futures of Microhistory, a symposium jointly organized by Stanford's Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies and UC Berkeley's DE in Renaissance ...
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What is the point of trying so hard to maintain your academic freedom if you’re going to abandon the entire educational enterprise, sacrifice the undergrads to the tech companies, and then light your reputation on fire?
Harvard Humanities Faculty Push Back on Deming’s Call for AI Use in Writing Courses | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard faculty in the humanities and social sciences expressed broad concern over an email Harvard College Dean David J. Deming sent students Wednesday suggesting that artificial intelligence be inte...
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As a professor with deep expertise in both Asian studies and a certain Netflix cheerleading show, I think the way Kelli Finglass says “What is Taoism?” is precisely the energy we need to bring to every Asian Studies course flyer we print this year.
I did a podcast with @draftingthepast.bsky.social! I discussed my lifelong obsession with Emily of New Moon, being compulsive about revision, cutting strawberries into very small pieces, nursing babies, and what I learned in Japanese-style seminars, among other things!
Drafting the Past@draftingthepast.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis was an inspiring, moving, invigorating conversation with Amy Stanley about STRANGER IN THE SHOGUN'S CITY (@scribnerbooks.bsky.social). If you've ever thought award-winning trade books could only be about white dudes and big events, listen to this one. 🗃️ player.captivate.fm/episode/87af...
An extremely illuminating article based on new research - part of an AAS panel I participated in two years ago, now published! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
“Military Comfort Stations” and “Military Comfort Women” as Recorded in Official Imperial Army Daily Records | Asia-Pacific Journal | Cambridge Core
“Military Comfort Stations” and “Military Comfort Women” as Recorded in Official Imperial Army Daily Records - Volume 24
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I just read Homage to Catalonia (either the best or worst thing to read right now) and why did no one tell me it had maybe the best final sentence I’ve ever read?
It’s true - apparently! The Japanese edition of Stranger in the Shogun’s City will be out from Misuzu shobō this spring. They did a great job in the translation, so it should be worth the wait.
BungakuReportEN（文学通信 海外版）@bungakureporten.bsky.social · 9mo agoAmy Stanleyさん @astanley711.bsky.social のStranger in the Shogun's Cityの邦訳がいよいよみすず書房さんより3月に刊行。 『将軍の都の客人 越後人・常野が見た江戸』 著者エイミー・スタンリー、監訳原直史、訳者石垣賀子 www.msz.co.jp/book/detail/...
They fixed it! My article is now open access. academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...
Revisiting the “Comfort Girls” of Report 49: Race, Sex, and Information in Asia’s War for Empire
Abstract. In 1944, a Japanese American intelligence officer stationed in Ledo, India, unwittingly composed a famous historical document: “Japanese Prisoner
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I published an article with @academic.oup.com and wanted it to be open access. They charged $4400 (!), which I paid. But surprise! My article came out - and it is not open access. I’ve been trying to get it fixed for weeks. No progress. And now they’ve stopped replying to emails. 😭
Approximately five years ago, I weighed in on an academic controversy. Chaos ensued. At the height of the insanity, very angry people kept on sending me a US military document from 1944. I wrote an article about the infamous document, its context, and its afterlife. academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...
Revisiting the “Comfort Girls” of Report 49: Race, Sex, and Information in Asia’s War for Empire
Abstract. In 1944, a Japanese American intelligence officer stationed in Ledo, India, unwittingly composed a famous historical document: “Japanese Prisoner
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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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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!!!!
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 · 12mo agoHas anything great happened in your life because of social media?
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...
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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.
Congratulations to the other Chicago-area historian named Amy Stanley!
UChicago Department of History@uchicagohistory.bsky.social · 2y agoIn 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!
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.”
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.
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)
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!
I thought nothing much was going on but it turns out the most extraordinary things happen here.