Jane Kamensky

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Jane Kamensky
Alma mater Yale University
OccupationHistorian
Employer The 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.

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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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