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Jane Kamensky

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Jane Kamensky
Alma materYale University
OccupationHistorian
EmployerThe Thomas Jefferson Foundation
SpouseDennis J. Scannell Jr.

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]

Awards and honors

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Works

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  • 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]

References

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  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". web.archive.org. 2011-02-27. Retrieved 2024-10-23.
  5. ^ "To form "a more-perfect-though-never-actually-perfect union": An interview with historian Jane Kamensky | Hopkins Press". www.press.jhu.edu. 2020-02-14. Retrieved 2024-10-23.
  6. ^ "Jane Kamensky Weds D. J. Scannell Jr". The New York Times. May 31, 1987.
  7. ^ "Blindspot - by Jane Kamensky & Jill Lepore". Blindspotthenovel.com. Archived from the original on 2008-12-25. Retrieved 2010-09-14.
  8. ^ "Jane Kamensky Weds D. J. Scannell Jr". The New York Times. 1987-05-31. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-02-15.
  9. ^ "Jane Kamensky named a finalist for the 2009 George Washington Book Prize". BrandeisNOW. Retrieved 2024-04-03.
  10. ^ Jennifer Schuessler (March 14, 2017). "Jane Kamensky Wins Historical Society Book Prize". New York Times. Retrieved April 28, 2017.
  11. ^ "Chaplin & Kamensky awarded Guggenheim Fellowships".
  12. ^ "Jane Kamensky". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation... Retrieved 2024-04-03.
  13. ^ "A Biography of a Feminist Porn Pioneer Bares All". New York Times.
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