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] 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

• 1987 Mellon Fellow^[8]
• 2009 George Washington Book Prize finalist^[9]
• 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^[10]
• 2018 Guggenheim Fellow^{[11] [12]}

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. ^[13]

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. Web site: 2011-02-27 . Jane Kamensky . 2024-10-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110227220904/http://www.brandeis.edu/facguide/person.html?emplid=79daf2f7f537bb4929e04b8009e5a8ec6d3de1a3 . 2011-02-27 .
5. Web site: 2020-02-14 . To form "a more-perfect-though-never-actually-perfect union": An interview with historian Jane Kamensky Hopkins Press . 2024-10-23 . www.press.jhu.edu . en.
6. News: Jane Kamensky Weds D. J. Scannell Jr.. The New York Times. May 31, 1987 .
7. 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 .
8. News: 1987-05-31 . Jane Kamensky Weds D. J. Scannell Jr. . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-02-15 . 0362-4331.
9. Web site: Jane Kamensky named a finalist for the 2009 George Washington Book Prize . 2024-04-03 . BrandeisNOW . en.
10. Web site: Jane Kamensky Wins Historical Society Book Prize . New York Times . Jennifer Schuessler . March 14, 2017 . April 28, 2017.
11. Web site: Chaplin & Kamensky awarded Guggenheim Fellowships.
12. Web site: Jane Kamensky . 2024-04-03 . John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation... . en.
13. Web site: A Biography of a Feminist Porn Pioneer Bares All . New York Times.