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.
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Alma mater | Yale University |
Occupation | Historian |
Employer | Harvard 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
- "Jane Kamensky". harvard.edu.
- Radcliffe biography, accessed on Jan. 15, 2020.
- "Jane Kamensky - Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Harvard University". Radcliffe.edu. Archived from the original on 2010-11-27. Retrieved 2010-09-14.
- "Jane Kamensky Weds D. J. Scannell Jr". The New York Times. May 31, 1987.
- "Blindspot - by Jane Kamensky & Jill Lepore". Blindspotthenovel.com. Archived from the original on 2008-12-25. Retrieved 2010-09-14.
- Jennifer Schuessler (March 14, 2017). "Jane Kamensky Wins Historical Society Book Prize". New York Times. Retrieved April 28, 2017.
External links
- Samuel P. Jacobs (November 16, 2008). "A talk with Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore". The Boston Globe.
- "Jane Kamensky: Collapse of a con game". Brandeis Profiles. Retrieved September 12, 2010.
- Appearances on C-SPAN
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