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] 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]

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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.
  • Kamensky, Jane (2024-03-12). Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution. W. W. Norton. ISBN 978-1-324-00208-6. [11]

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. ^ "Jane Kamensky named a finalist for the 2009 George Washington Book Prize". BrandeisNOW. Retrieved 2024-04-03.
  8. ^ Jennifer Schuessler (March 14, 2017). "Jane Kamensky Wins Historical Society Book Prize". New York Times. Retrieved April 28, 2017.
  9. ^ "Chaplin & Kamensky awarded Guggenheim Fellowships".
  10. ^ "Jane Kamensky". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation... Retrieved 2024-04-03.
  11. ^ "A Biography of a Feminist Porn Pioneer Bares All". New York Times.

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