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Amy Stanley

@astanley711.bsky.social
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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 · 29/09/2026
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!!
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Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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...
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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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Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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?
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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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Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
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.
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Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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!
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Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
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...
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“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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Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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?
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Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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.
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Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
They fixed it! My article is now open access. academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...
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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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Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
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. 😭
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Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
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-...
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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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Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
This book is *amazing* - highly recommended.
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Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
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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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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Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Looking through citations like . . .
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a man with a mustache wears a pink jacket with gold trim
ALT: a man with a mustache wears a pink jacket with gold trim
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Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
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!!!!
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Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Coming soon - finally!
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Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
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.
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Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
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...
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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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Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
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.
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Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
New book alert!!!
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Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Congratulations to the other Chicago-area historian named Amy Stanley!
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Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I just submitted the article that is going to ruin my life!
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Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Extra points for the student who wrote in her exam that Tokugawa Nariaki was “NOT THE SHOGUN but the daimyo of Mito.”
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Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
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 · 26/11/2024
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
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Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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)
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Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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.
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Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Panel tonight at U Chicago! events.uchicago.edu/event/241370...
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Images of Sex Workers at the Art Museum: A Panel Discussion
Many well-known images of Japanese “beauties” — as well as of Korean entertainers depicted during the Japanese colonial occupation (1910-45) ...
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Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I’ve gotten out of the habit of posting but it’s nice to see people here sharing stuff about Japanese history again!
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Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · 30/03/2024
I thought nothing much was going on but it turns out the most extraordinary things happen here.
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Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
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.
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Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
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.”
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Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
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
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