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] In 2023 the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, announced Kamensky would assume the Presidency of the Foundation in January, 2024.

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

She married Dennis J. Scannell Jr. in 1987; [6] they live in Cambridge, Massachusetts with their two sons. [7]

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