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Jane Kamensky

Jane Kamensky, an American historian, is a professor emerita of history at Harvard University. 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. She was a Radcliffe Institute Fellow in 2006–2007. She was Harry S. Truman Professor of American Civilization at Brandeis University. She was Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History at Harvard University. She was also the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library.

She married Dennis J. Scannell Jr. in 1987; they live in Cambridge, Massachusetts with their two sons. Provided by Wikipedia