Jane Kamensky

Jane Kamensky
Alma mater	Yale University
Occupation	Historian
Employer	The Thomas Jefferson Foundation
Spouse	Dennis J. Scannell Jr.

Jane Kamensky, an American historian, is a professor emerita of history at Harvard University. ^[1] Since 2024 she has been the President and CEO of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation and of Jefferson's home, Monticello.

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 also the Harry S. Truman Professor of American Civilization at Brandeis University, ^[4] the Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History at Harvard University ^[5] and the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library.

She married Dennis J. Scannell Jr. in 1987; ^[6] they live in Charlottesville, Virginia. ^[7]

Awards and honors

• 1987 Mellon Fellow ^[8]
• 2009 George Washington Book Prize finalist ^[9]
• 2009 Fellow, Society of American Historians^{[ citation needed ]}
• 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. 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: A History from Below. W. W. Norton. ISBN   978-1-324-00208-6. ^[13]

References

1. "Jane Kamensky". harvard.edu.
2. "Radcliffe biography, accessed on Jan. 15, 2020". Archived from the original on 2020-01-16. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
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". 2011-02-27. Archived from the original on 2011-02-27. Retrieved 2024-10-23.
5. "To form "a more-perfect-though-never-actually-perfect union": An interview with historian Jane Kamensky | Hopkins Press". www.press.jhu.edu. 2020-02-14. Retrieved 2024-10-23.
6. "Jane Kamensky Weds D. J. Scannell Jr". The New York Times. May 31, 1987.
7. Spencer, Hawes (October 18, 2023). "Monticello Hires New President". Archived from the original on 25 December 2008. Retrieved 2025-09-17.
8. "Jane Kamensky Weds D. J. Scannell Jr". The New York Times. 1987-05-31. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2023-02-15.
9. "Jane Kamensky named a finalist for the 2009 George Washington Book Prize". BrandeisNOW. Retrieved 2024-04-03.
10. Jennifer Schuessler (March 14, 2017). "Jane Kamensky Wins Historical Society Book Prize". New York Times. Retrieved April 28, 2017.
11. "Chaplin & Kamensky awarded Guggenheim Fellowships". 5 April 2018.
12. "Jane Kamensky". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation... Retrieved 2024-04-03.
13. "A Biography of a Feminist Porn Pioneer Bares All". New York Times. 12 March 2024.

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.^{[ dead link ]}
• Appearances on C-SPAN