Amy Stanley, the Wayne V. Jones II Research Professor in History at Northwestern University, will discuss her award-winning book Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World at Boston College on Sept. 11 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall 100. A social historian of early modern and modern Japan, Stanley has special interests in global history, women’s and gender history, and narrative. Stranger in the Shogun’s City explores the life of an unconventional woman during the first half of the 19th century in Edo—the city that would become Tokyo—and offers a portrait of a city on the brink of a momentous encounter with the West. It 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. Stanley is also the author of Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan, as well as articles in the American Historical Review, The Journal of Japanese Studies, and The Journal of Asian Studies. The lecture is presented by the Lowell Humanities Series and is co-sponsored by the History Department and the Asian Studies program. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.