Professor Amy Stanley, Orrington Lunt Professor of History and Director of Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies (Northwestern University), will present a lecture on “Reconsidering the ‘Comfort Girls’ of Report #49: Sex, Race, and Information in Asia’s War for Empire,” which will be held in University Suite (HSC) on Thursday 6 February at 4:00 to 5:30 pm.

This Graduate Colloquium Lecture is open to all undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty in History, as well as other members of the NIU community. Participants are invited to attend the lecture in the University Suite, Holmes Student Center, and join in the discussion afterward.

Professor Amy Stanley (Ph.D., Harvard, 2007) is a historian of early modern and modern Japan, with special interests in global history, women's and gender history, and narrative. Her most recent book, Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World (Scribner, 2020), won the National Book Critics’ Circle Award in Biography and PEN/America Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award in Biography and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography. She is also the author of Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan (UC Press 2012), as well as articles in the American Historical Review, The Journal of Japanese Studies, and The Journal of Asian Studies. She received her PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard in 2007, and she has held fellowships from the Japan Foundation, the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. She is currently at work on a narrative history of Japan.