Jane Kamensky

Jane Kamensky (born c. 1963) is an American historian, professor emerita of history at Harvard University, and since 2024 President and CEO of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello. Her most notable works include the award-winning biography A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley (2016), which received the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History, the Annibel Jenkins Biography Prize, and the Massachusetts Book Award, as well as The Exchange Artist (2008, George Washington Book Prize finalist) and the novel Blindspot (2008, co-authored with Jill Lepore). Major achievements include Guggenheim (2018) and Mellon (1987) fellowships, Society of American Historians fellowship (2009), and leadership roles at Harvard's Schlesinger Library and Brandeis University.