Jane Kamensky
American historian
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Jane Kamensky, an American historian, is a professor emerita of history at Harvard University.[1] Since 2024 she has been the president and CEO of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation and of Jefferson's home, Monticello.
Jane Kamensky | |
|---|---|
| Education | Yale University |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Employer | The Thomas Jefferson Foundation |
| Spouse | Dennis J. Scannell Jr. |
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 also the Harry S. Truman Professor of American Civilization at Brandeis University,[4] the Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History at Harvard University[5] and the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library.
She married Dennis J. Scannell Jr. in 1987;[6] they live in Charlottesville, Virginia.[7]
Awards and honors
- 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]
Works
- 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: A History from Below. W. W. Norton. ISBN 978-1-324-00208-6. [13]