Jane Kamensky

Jane Kamensky
Residence Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Alma mater Yale University
Occupation Historian
Employer Harvard University
Spouse(s) Dennis J. Scannell Jr.

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.

Kamensky graduated from Yale University, with a B.A. and Ph.D. in History. She was a Radcliffe Institute Fellow in 2006–2007.[2] She married Dennis J. Scannell Jr. in 1987;[3] they live in Cambridge, Massachusetts with their two sons.[4]

Awards and honors

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.

References

  1. ↑ "Jane Kamensky". harvard.edu.
  2. ↑ "Jane Kamensky - Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Harvard University". Radcliffe.edu. Archived from the original on 2010-11-27. Retrieved 2010-09-14.
  3. ↑ "Jane Kamensky Weds D. J. Scannell Jr". The New York Times. May 31, 1987.
  4. ↑ "Blindspot - by Jane Kamensky & Jill Lepore". Blindspotthenovel.com. Archived from the original on 2008-12-25. Retrieved 2010-09-14.
  5. ↑ Jennifer Schuessler (March 14, 2017). "Jane Kamensky Wins Historical Society Book Prize". New York Times. Retrieved April 28, 2017.
  • 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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