Jane Kamensky

Jane Kamensky, an American historian, is a Professor of History at Harvard University.[1] She is also the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library.

Jane Kamensky
Alma materYale University
OccupationHistorian
EmployerHarvard University
Spouse(s)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 married Dennis J. Scannell Jr. in 1987;[4] they live in Cambridge, Massachusetts with their two sons.[5]

Awards and honors
  • 1987 Mellon Fellow
  • 2009 George Washington Book Prize finalist
  • 2009 Fellow, Society of American Historians
  • 2016 Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History for A Revolution in Color[6]

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.
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References
  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. Jennifer Schuessler (March 14, 2017). "Jane Kamensky Wins Historical Society Book Prize". New York Times. Retrieved April 28, 2017.
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