Jane Kamensky, an American

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

, is a professor of history at Harvard University. She is also the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the

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. Kamensky graduated from

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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 married Dennis J. Scannell Jr. in 1987; they live in

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with their two sons.

Awards and honors

*1987 Mellon Fellow *2009

George Washington Book Prize The George Washington Book Prize was instituted in 2005 and is awarded annually to the best book on the founding era of the United States; especially ones that have the potential to advance broad public understanding of American history. It is admi ...

finalist *2009 Fellow, Society of American Historians *2016

Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History The New-York Historical Society gives three book prizes annually. From 2005 to 2012 there was one award for American history. A second award was added in 2013 for children's history. A third award was added in 2016 for military history. Barbara a ...

for ''A Revolution in Color'' * 2018

Guggenheim Fellow Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the a ...

Works

* ''A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley'', W. W. Norton. 2016. . * * * * *

References

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