Jane Kamensky

American historian

Jane Kamensky

Alma mater| Yale University
Occupation| Historian
Employer| Harvard University
Spouse| Dennis J. Scannell Jr.

Jane Kamensky, an American historian, is a professor of history at Harvard University.[1] On October 17, 2023 the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, which owns and operates UNESCO World Heritage Site Monticello, in Charlottesville, VA announced Kamensky would assume the Presidency of the Foundation in January, 2024. She is also the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library.

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 married Dennis J. Scannell Jr. in 1987;[4] they live in Cambridge, Massachusetts with their two sons.[5]

## Awards and honors[edit]

* 1987 Mellon Fellow[6]
* 2009 George Washington Book Prize finalist[citation needed]
* 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[7]
* 2018 Guggenheim Fellow[8]

## Works[edit]

* 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.

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Jane Kamensky". harvard.edu.
2. ^ Radcliffe biography, accessed on Jan. 15, 2020
3. ^ "Jane Kamensky - Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Harvard University". Radcliffe.edu. Archived from the original on 2010-11-27. Retrieved 2010-09-14.
4. ^ "Jane Kamensky Weds D. J. Scannell Jr". The New York Times. May 31, 1987.
5. ^ "Blindspot - by Jane Kamensky & Jill Lepore". Blindspotthenovel.com. Archived from the original on 2008-12-25. Retrieved 2010-09-14.
6. ^ "Jane Kamensky Weds D. J. Scannell Jr". The New York Times. 1987-05-31. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-02-15.
7. ^ Jennifer Schuessler (March 14, 2017). "Jane Kamensky Wins Historical Society Book Prize". New York Times. Retrieved April 28, 2017.
8. ^ "Chaplin & Kamensky awarded Guggenheim Fellowships".

## External links[edit]

* 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

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