Jane Kamensky Explained

Jane Kamensky
Alma Mater:	Yale University
Employer:	The Thomas Jefferson Foundation
Occupation:	Historian
Spouse:	Dennis J. Scannell Jr.

Jane Kamensky, an American historian, is a professor emerita 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 was 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

• 1987 Mellon Fellow^[6]
• 2009 George Washington Book Prize finalist^[7]
• 2009 Fellow, Society of American Historians
• 2016 Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History for A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley^[8]
• 2018 Guggenheim Fellow^{[9] [10]}

Works

• A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley, W. W. Norton. 2016. .
• News: Boom and Bust: It's the American Way. The Los Angeles Times. July 20, 2008 .
• Book: The Exchange Artist: A Tale of High-Flying Speculation and America's First Banking Collapse. Viking. 2008. 978-0-670-01841-3 .
• Book: Blindspot: by a Gentleman in Exile and a Lady in Disguise. Jane Kamensky. Jill Lepore. Jill Lepore. Random House, Inc.. 2008. 978-0-385-52619-7 .
• Book: Governing the Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New England. Oxford University Press . 1999. 978-0-19-513090-4 .
• Book: The Colonial Mosaic: American Women 1600-1760. Jane Kamensky. Nancy F. Cott. Nancy F. Cott. Oxford University Press. 1998. 978-0-19-512400-2 .
• Book: Kamensky, Jane . Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution . 2024-03-12 . W. W. Norton . 978-1-324-00208-6. ^[11]

External links

• News: A talk with Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore. The Boston Globe. Samuel P. Jacobs. November 16, 2008 .
• Jane Kamensky: Collapse of a con game. Brandeis Profiles . September 12, 2010 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Jane Kamensky . harvard.edu.
2. https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/jane-kamensky-leadership Radcliffe biography, accessed on Jan. 15, 2020
3. Web site: Jane Kamensky - Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Harvard University . Radcliffe.edu . 2010-09-14 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101127141446/http://radcliffe.edu/fellowships/fellows_2007jkamensky.aspx . 2010-11-27 .
4. News: Jane Kamensky Weds D. J. Scannell Jr.. The New York Times. May 31, 1987 .
5. Web site: Blindspot - by Jane Kamensky & Jill Lepore . https://archive.today/20081225110531/http://www.blindspotthenovel.com/blindspot-kamensky.htm . dead . 2008-12-25 . Blindspotthenovel.com . 2010-09-14 .
6. News: 1987-05-31 . Jane Kamensky Weds D. J. Scannell Jr. . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-02-15 . 0362-4331.
7. Web site: Jane Kamensky named a finalist for the 2009 George Washington Book Prize . 2024-04-03 . BrandeisNOW . en.
8. Web site: Jane Kamensky Wins Historical Society Book Prize . New York Times . Jennifer Schuessler . March 14, 2017 . April 28, 2017.
9. Web site: Chaplin & Kamensky awarded Guggenheim Fellowships.
10. Web site: Jane Kamensky . 2024-04-03 . John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation... . en.
11. Web site: A Biography of a Feminist Porn Pioneer Bares All . New York Times.