Jane Kamensky
Encyclopedia
Jane Kamensky is an American historian
, and Harry S. Truman Professor of American Civilization at Brandeis University
.
She graduated from Yale University
, with a B.A. and Ph.D. in History.
She was a Radcliffe Institute Fellow in 2006–2007.
She married Dennis J. Scannell Jr. in 1987; they live in Cambridge, Massachusetts
with their two sons.
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 study of all history in time. If the individual is...
, and Harry S. Truman Professor of American Civilization at Brandeis University
Brandeis University
Brandeis University is an American private research university with a liberal arts focus. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, Massachusetts, nine miles west of Boston. The University has an enrollment of approximately 3,200 undergraduate and 2,100 graduate students. In 2011, it...
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She graduated from Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
, with a B.A. and Ph.D. in History.
She was a Radcliffe Institute Fellow in 2006–2007.
She married Dennis J. Scannell Jr. in 1987; they live in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...
with their two sons.
Awards
- 2009 George Washington Book PrizeGeorge Washington Book PrizeThe George Washington Book Prize was instituted in 2005 and is awarded annually to the best book on America's founding era, especially those that have the potential to advance broad public understanding of American history. It is administered by Washington College’s C.V...
finalist - 2009 Fellow, Society of American Historians
- 1987 Mellon Fellow