Jane Kamensky, an American historian, is a professor emerita of history at Harvard University.
[3] She was Harry S. Truman Professor of American Civilization at Brandeis University.
[4] She was Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History at Harvard University.
[5] She was also the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library.
She married Dennis J. Scannell Jr. in 1987;[6] they live in Cambridge, Massachusetts with their two sons.