Jane Kamensky

Jane Kamensky
Alma materYale University
OccupationHistorian
EmployerThe 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.

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]

  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". 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. ^ "Blindspot - by Jane Kamensky & Jill Lepore". Blindspotthenovel.com. Archived from the original on 2008-12-25. Retrieved 2010-09-14.