Cecelia M. Kenyon (1923 – January 1990) was an American political scientist.
In her 1955 essay "Men of little faith: the Anti-Federalists on the nature of representative government" in The William and Mary Quarterly, Kenyon argued that the American Revolution was both essentially conservative and essentially radical, involving a rejection of some parts of the past while embracing others.
[3] In 1966, she edited the volume The Antifederalists which collected writings opposed to the federalists around the time of the Revolution.
[3] The editors of the volume argued that Kenyon's work had had a major influence on subsequent historiography of the American Revolutionary era.
[3] Kenyon retired in 1984, and she died in Northampton, Massachusetts[1] in January 1990.