Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars. New York: W.W. Norton, 2023.

Coauthored with Pieter Judson, The Great War and the Transformation of Habsburg Central Europe. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, in progress.

Coauthored with Leora Auslander. Objects of War: The Material Culture of Conflict and Displacement. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018.

The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World. New York: W.W. Norton, 2016.

• Review by Benjamin Cunningham in the Los Angeles Review of Books (May 24, 2016)

• Review by The Economist (April 30, 2016)

• Interview with Adam Morgan for the Chicago Review of Books (April 7, 2016)

• Review by Julie M. Klein in the Chicago Tribune (March 17, 2016)

The Lost Children: Reconstructing Europe's Families after World War II. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011.

• George Louis Beer Prize, American Historical Association, 2012

• Radomir Luza Prize, Austrian Cultural Forum, 2012

Kidnapped Souls: National Indifference and the Battle for Children in the Bohemian Lands, 1900–1948. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008; paperback, 2011.

• Book Prize, Czechoslovak Studies Association, 2009

• Barbara Jelavich Book Prize, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 2009

• Hans Rosenberg Book Prize, Conference Group for Central European History, 2009.

• Book Prize, Austrian Cultural Forum, 2008-2009

• Laura Shannon Prize, Nanovic Institute, 2008–2009

• “Migration, Mobility, and the Making of a Global Europe,” Contemporary European History 31 (February 2022), 142-54.

• “Against the World: The Collapse of Empire and the Deglobalization of Interwar Austria,” Austrian History Yearbook 52 (2021)

• “Fin d’empire et genre de la déglobalisation,” Clio. Femmes, genre, histoire 53, 2021.

• "'Condemned to Rootlessness and Unable to Budge': Roma, Migration Panics, and Internment in the Habsburg Empire." American Historical Review 122, no. 3 (Jun. 2017).

• "Europe's Shifting Borders." Foreign Affairs (Feb. 11, 2017).

• "Travel Agents on Trial: Policing Mobility in Late Imperial Austria." Past & Present 223 (May 2014): 161–93.

• "Forum: Habsburg History." German History 31 (Jun. 2013): 225–38.

• With Pieter M. Judson. "Introduction." Austrian History Yearbook 43 (2012): 21–27.

• [Papers from the May 2008 symposium, "Indiference to Nation in Habsburg Central Europe."]

• "Going West." East European Politics and Societies 25 (Nov. 2011): 785–91.

• 
"'The Psychological Marshall Plan': Displacement, Gender, and Human Rights after World War II." Central European History 44 (Mar. 2011): 37–62.

• "Enfants et purification ethnique dans la Tchécoslovaquie d'après-guerre." Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales 66 (Apr.–Jun. 2011).

• "'A Human Treasure': Europe's Displaced Children Between Nationalism and Internationalism." Postwar Reconstruction in Europe: International Perspectives 1945–1949 Past & Present Supplement 6 (2011): 210.

• "Imagined Non-Communities: National Indifference as a Category of Analysis." Slavic Review 69 (Spr. 2010): 93–119.

• "'Prisoners of the Postwar': Expellees, Refugees, and Jews in Postwar Austria." Austrian History Yearbook 41 (2010): 191–215.

• "Lost Children: Displacement, Family, and Nation in Postwar Europe." Journal of Modern History 81 (Mar. 2009), 45–86.

• "The Minority Problem: National Classification in the French and Czechoslovak Borderlands." Contemporary European History 17 (May 2008): 137–165.

• "'Each Nation Only Cares for Its Own': Empire, Nation, and Child Welfare Activism in the Bohemian Lands, 1900–1918." American Historical Review 111 (Dec. 2006): 1378–1402.

• "Looking East: East Central European 'Borderlands' in German History and Historiography." History Compass 3, no. 1 (2005): 1–23.

• "Reclaiming Children for the Nation: Germanization, National Ascription, and Democracy in the Bohemian Lands, 1900–1945." Central European History 37 (Dec. 2004): 499–541.

• Reviews of Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

• Receives Guggenheim Fellowship (2021)

• Delivers the Center for Austrian Studies' 36th Annual Kann Memorial Lecture (2020)

• "The Ugly U.S. History of Separating Famiies Goes Back Way Beyond Trump" in the Daily Beast

• Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

• Discusses "Europe's Shifting Borders" in Foreign Affairs

• Reviews of The Great Departure in the Chicago Tribune, the Economist, and the Los Angeles Review of Books

• Publishes The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World (Norton, 2016)

  

• Writes an opinion piece, "America, the Not So Promised Land," for the New York Times

• Coorganizes "People & Things on the Move" conference, Neubauer Collegium

• Coorganizes "Human Trafficking, Labor Migration, and Migration Control in Comparative Historical Perspective" conference, Pozen Family Center for Human Rights

• Awarded 2014 MacArthur Fellowship

• Discusses "Humanitarianism and Displaced Children in Twentieth-Century Europe" [video, 66 minutes]

• Delivers lecture at Shannon Prize Award ceremony [video, 85 minutes]

• Writes on topics related to The Lost Children:Reconstructing Europe’s Families After World War II on The Nation

The Antislavery Ethic and the Spirit of Commerce: An American History of Human Rights. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, forthcoming.

From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

• Frederick Jackson Turner Prize, 1999. (For the best first book in US History, awarded by the Organization of American Historians.)
• Morris D. Forkosch Award, 1999. (For the best book in intellectual history.)
• Avery O. Craven Award, 1999. (For the best book on the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction, awarded by the Organization of American Historians.)
• Frederick Douglass Prize, 1999, honorable mention. (For the best book on the history of slavery.)

• "The Sovereign Market and Sex Difference: Human Rights in America." In American Capitalism: New Histories, edited by Sven Beckert and Christine Desan. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018.
• "Slave Emancipation and the Revolutionizing of Human Rights." In The World the Civil War Made, edited by Greg Downs and Kate Masur. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
• “Contract.” In Keywords for American Cultural Studies, 2nd ed., edited by B. Burgett and G. Hendler. New York: New York University Press, 2014.
• "Slave Breeding and Free Love: An Antebellum Argument over Slavery, Capitalism, and Personhood." In Capitalism Takes Command, edited by Michael Zakim and Gary Kornblith. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.
• "Instead of Waiting for the Thirteenth Amendment: The War Power, Slave Marriage, and Inviolate Human Rights." American Historical Review 115, no. 3 (June 2010): 732–65.
• "When We Were Young." In Wayne F. Miller: Photographs 1942–1958, edited by Stephen Daiter. Brooklyn: Powerhouse Books, 2008.
• "Wages, Sin, and Slavery: Some Thoughts on Free Will and Commodity Relations." Journal of the Early Republic 24 (Sum. 2004).
• "Dominion and Dependence in the Law of Freedom and Slavery." Law & Social Inquiry 28, no. 3 (Aut. 2003): 1127-34.
• "Marriage, Property, and Ideals of Class." In Blackwell's Companion to American Women's History, edited by Nancy Hewitt. Oxford: Blackwell Press, 2002.
• "The Right to Possess All the Faculties that God Has Given: Possessive Individualism, Slave Women, and Abolitionist Thought." In Moral Problems in American Life, edited by Lewis Perry and Karen Halttunnen. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999.
• "'We Did Not Separate Man and Wife, But All Had to Work': Freedom and Dependence in the Aftermath of Slave Emancipation"  in Terms of Labor: Slavery, Serfdom, and Free Labor, edited by Stanley Engerman, Stanford University Press, 1999.
• "Home Life and the Morality of the Marketplace: Slavery and Freedom, Women and Men." In The Market Revolution in America, edited by Melvyn Stokes. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1996.
• "Beggars Can't Be Choosers: Compulsion and Contract in Postbellum America." Journal of American History 78, no. 4 (Mar. 1992): 1265–93.
• "Conjugal Bonds and Wage Labor: Rights of Contract in the Age of Emancipation." Journal of American History 75, no. 2 (Sept. 1988): 471–500.

• Quoted in the NYT article, "Juneteenth Reminds Us to Think About Economic Freedom, Not Just Legal Liberty"
• Quoted in the Washington Post on polarization, the history of race in the US, and the GOP
• Comments on the Florida Board of Education's guidelines on teaching Black history in Newsweek
• Co-writes with Craig Becker for the New York Times on Amazon's opposition to mail-in ballot unionization votes
• Writes for the Washington Post on the Commerce Clause and pandemic liability protection for businesses
• Quoted in the Burlington Free Press on the history of the Confederate Flag
• Quoted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on the meaning of Chicago 1968
• Chairs 2018 Pulitzer Prize for History Jury
• Writes for Slate on the abolition of slavery, theatergoing, and the right to happiness
• Named an OAH Distinguished Lecturer
• Kyle Volk, PhD'08, Praises Stanley's Scholarship on the Oxford University Press blog
• Participates on Yale Panel on the 14th Amendment
• Amy Dru Stanley and Jonathan Levy Embark on New Study of the Economy
• Coorganizes "Human Trafficking, Labor Migration, and Migration Control in Comparative Historical Perspective" conference, Pozen Family Center for Human Rights
• Writes for the New York Times Opinionator blog on the Civil War Enlistment Act

• The World Reimagined: Americans and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
• Vietnam at War: The Search for Meaning. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
• Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919–1950. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.

• The Familiar Made Strange: American Icons and Artifacts after the Transnational Turn, coeditor with Brooke L. Blower. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015.
• Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars: Transnational and International Perspectives, coeditor with Marilyn B. Young. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
• Truth Claims: Representations and Human Rights, coeditor with Patrice Petro. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002.

• “Making Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s The Spector of the Ancestors Becoming,” American Historical Review 127.3 (September 2022): 1312-18. 
• “What is America and the World?”, Cambridge History of America and the World, volume 1 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021): 1-7. 
• “The Anecdote,” co-written with Lee Weng-Choy, Portable Gray 4.2 (Fall 2021): 310-18.
• "Understanding the Rise of the Global South in Pandemic Times." Diplomatic History 45, no. 3 (2021): 460-67.
• "Making Peace as a Project of Moral Reconstruction." In The Cambridge History of the Second World War, vol. 3, edited by Michael Geyer and Adam Tooze, 528–551. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
• Cowritten with Viet Thanh Nguyen. "Vietnam: American and Vietnamese Public Diplomacy, 1945–2010." In Adversarial States, US Foreign Policy, and Public Diplomacy, edited by Geoffrey Wiseman, 110–139. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015.
• “American Vernaculars: The United States and the Global Human Rights Imagination (Presidential Address),” Diplomatic History 38, no. 1 (Jan. 2014): 1–21.
• “The Charlie Maier Scare: The Historiography of American Foreign Relations, 1959–1980.” In America in the World: The Historiography of American Foreign Relations since 1941, 2nd ed., edited by Frank Costigliola and Michael J. Hogan, 9–29. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
• “Internationalism.” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History, edited by Timothy J. Lynch, 517–23. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
• “The United States and the Global Human Rights Politics in the 1940s.” In Civil Religion, Human Rights and International Relations, edited by Helle Porsdam, 118–35. London: Edward Elgar, 2012.
• “Writing Human Rights History.” Il Mestiere di storico 3, no. 2 (2011): 13–30.
• “Approaching the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.” In The Human Rights Revolution: An International History, edited by Akira Iriye, Petra Goode, and William Hitchcock, 327–43. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
• “Setting the Stage: Vietnamese Revolutionary Nationalism and the First Vietnam War.” In The Columbia History of the Vietnam Wars, edited by David Anderson, 93–119. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.
• "Decolonization, Revolutionary Nationalism, and the Cold War, 1919-1962." In The Cambridge History of the War, vol. 1, edited by Melvyn P. Leffler and Odd Arne Westad. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
• "The Ambiguities of Sovereignty: The United States and the Global Rights Cases of the 1940s." In Art of the State: Sovereignty Past and Present, edited by Douglas Howland and Luise White. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008.
• "Introduction." In Human Rights and Revolution, edited by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Lynn Hunt, and Greg Grandin. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007.
• "Interchange: Legacies of the Vietnam Wars." Journal of American History 43, no. 2 (Sept. 2006): 452–91.
• "Making Sense of the French War: Postcolonial Modernity and Vietnam, 1946-1954." In Indochina in the Balance: New Perspectives on the First Vietnam War, edited by Mark Lawrence and Fredrik Logevall, 16–40. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.
• "The Imperial and the Postcolonial." In Palgrave Advances in International History, edited by P. Finney, 247–266. London and New York: Palgrave/Macmillan Press, 2005.
• "Becoming Van Minh: Civilizational Discourse and Rights Talk in Colonial Vietnam." Journal of World History 15, no. 1 (Mar. 2004): 65–83.
• "Franklin Roosevelt, Trusteeship and US Exceptionalism: Reconsidering American Visions of Postcolonial Vietnam." In The Transformation of Southeast Asia: International Perspectives on Decolonization, edited by Marc Frey, Ronald W. Preussen, and Tan Tai Yong, 197–212. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 2003; and in A Companion to the Vietnam War, edited by Marilyn B.Young and Robert Buzzanco, 130–145. New York: Blackwell Publishing, 2002.
• "Contests of Memory: Remembering and Forgetting War in the Contemporary Vietnamese Cinema." In The Country of Memory: Remaking the Past in Late Socialist Vietnam, edited by Hue-Tam Ho Tai, 196–226. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.
• "Slouching Toward Bethlehem: Culture, Diplomacy, and the Origins of the Cold War in Vietnam." In Cold War Constructions: The Political Culture of United States Imperialism, 1945–1966, edited by Christian G. Appy, 11–34. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000.

• Reviews Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s The Vietnam War, American Historical Review 124, no. 1 (Feb. 2019).
• "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70," Perpectives on History, Dec. 10, 2018
• Appointed Deputy Dean of the Social Sciences
• Discusses "Human Rights in the Era of Trump" for AHA Today (blog)
• Talks on "American Views on Global Human Rights," Woodrow Wilson Center [video, 88 minutes]
• Authors The World Reimagined (Cambridge, 2016)
• Convenes “Colloquy: Queering America and the World.” Diplomatic History 40, no. 1 (Jan. 2016)

• Receives 2022 Quantrell Award

• Named a fellow in the Public Intellectuals Program of the National Committee on US-China Relations

• Coorganizes "Human Trafficking, Labor Migration, and Migration Control in Comparative Historical Perspective" conference, Pozen Family Center for Human Rights

• Discusses Chinese Human Trafficking and Slavery during the Late Qing and Republican Periods [video, 5 minutes]

Warfare State: World War II Americans and the Age of Big Government. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

• Honorable mention, 2012 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians.
• Review by Walter Russell Mead in Foreign Affairs (March/April 2012).

• Boundaries of the State in US History, edited by James T. Sparrow, William J. Novak, and Stephen W. Sawyer
. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.

• "Beyond Stateless Democracy," edited by William J. Novak, Stephen W. Sawyer, and James T. Sparrow, special issue, Tocqueville Review 36, no. 1 (2015).

• "The History of the French and American States," edited by Stephen W. Sawyer, William J. Novak, and James T. Sparrow, special issue, Tocqueville Review 33, no. 2 (2012).

• "Democratic States of Un-Exception: Towards a New Genealogy of the American Political," coauthored with William J. Novak and Stephen W. Sawyer. In Many Hands of the State, edited by Kimberly Morgan and Ann Orloff. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in press.

• "Rumors of Empire: Tracking the Image of Britain at the Dawn of the American Century." In Boundaries of the State in US History, edited by James T. Sparrow, William J. Novak, and Stephen W. Sawyer
. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.

• "Introduction," coauthored with William J. Novak and Stephen W. Sawyer. In Boundaries of the State in US History, edited by James T. Sparrow, William J. Novak, and Stephen W. Sawyer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.

• "Morgenthau's Dilemma: Rethinking the Democratic Leviathan in the Atomic Age." In "Beyond Stateless Democracy, edited by William J. Novak, Stephen W. Sawyer, and James T. Sparrow, special issue, Tocqueville Review 36, no. 1 (2015).

• "Beyond Stateless Democracy," coauthored with William J. Novak and Stephen W. Sawyer, In "Beyond Stateless Democracy, special issue, Tocqueville Review 36, no. 1 (2015).

• "Behind the Atomic Curtain: School Desegregation and Territoriality in the Early Cold War." In "The History of the French and American States, edited by Stephen W. Sawyer, William J. Novak, and James T. Sparrow, special edition, Tocqueville Review 33, no. 2 (2012): 115–139.

• "Toward a History of the Democratic State," coauthored with William J. Novak and Stephen W. Sawyer. In "The History of the French and American States, special edition, Tocqueville Review 33, no. 2 (2012): 7–18.

• "Freedom to Want: The Federal Government and Politicized Consumption in World War II." In Fog of War: The Second World War and the Civil Rights Movement, edited by Kevin M. Kruse and Stephen Tuck. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

• "A Nation in Motion: Norfolk, the Pentagon, and the Nationalization of the Metropolitan South, 1941–1953." In The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism, edited by Matthew D. Lassiter and Joseph Crespino. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.

• "'Buying Our Boys Back': The Mass Foundations of Fiscal Citizenship in World War II." Journal of Policy History 20, no. 2 (2008): 263–86.

• "Hot War, Cold War: The Structures of Sociological Action, 1940–1955," coauthored with Andrew Abbott. In Sociology in America: The American Sociological Association Centennial History, edited by Craig Calhoun. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.

• Awarded 2023 Quantrell Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching

• Named an OAH Distinguished Lecturer

• Co-organizes Major Project on "State as History and Theory" at the Neubauer Collegium