Jane Kamensky

Jane Kamensky, an American historian, is a professor emerita of history at Harvard University.^[1] In 2023 the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, announced Kamensky would assume the Presidency of the Foundation in January, 2024.

Kamensky graduated from Yale University in 1985 with a B.A., and in 1993 with a Ph.D. in history.^[2] She was a Radcliffe Institute Fellow in 2006–2007.^[3] She was Harry S. Truman Professor of American Civilization at Brandeis University.^[4] She was Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History at Harvard University.^[5] She was also the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library.

She married Dennis J. Scannell Jr. in 1987;^[6] they live in Cambridge, Massachusetts with their two sons.^[7]

• 1987 Mellon Fellow^[8]
• 2009 George Washington Book Prize finalist^[9]
• 2009 Fellow, Society of American Historians^{[citation needed]}
• 2016 Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History for A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley^[10]
• 2018 Guggenheim Fellow^[11][12]

• A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley, W. W. Norton. 2016. ISBN 978-0-393-24001-6.
• "Boom and Bust: It's the American Way". The Los Angeles Times. July 20, 2008.
• The Exchange Artist: A Tale of High-Flying Speculation and America's First Banking Collapse. Viking. 2008. ISBN 978-0-670-01841-3.
• Jane Kamensky; Jill Lepore (2008). Blindspot: by a Gentleman in Exile and a Lady in Disguise. Random House, Inc. ISBN 978-0-385-52619-7.
• Governing the Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New England. Oxford University Press. 1999. ISBN 978-0-19-513090-4.
• Jane Kamensky (1998). Nancy F. Cott (ed.). The Colonial Mosaic: American Women 1600-1760. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-512400-2.
• Kamensky, Jane (2024-03-12). Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution. W. W. Norton. ISBN 978-1-324-00208-6. ^[13]

• Samuel P. Jacobs (November 16, 2008). "A talk with Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore". The Boston Globe.
• "Jane Kamensky: Collapse of a con game". Brandeis Profiles. Retrieved September 12, 2010.
• Appearances on C-SPAN