Jane Kamensky is a historian of British America and the United States. She is the author of numerous books, including A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley (2016),which won four major prizes and was a finalist for several others; and, most recently, Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution, published by W.W. Norton in March 2024. A former Commissioner of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Kamensky serves as a Trustee of the Museum of the American Revolution, and as one of the principal investigators on the NEH/Department of Education-funded initiative, Educating for American Democracy, among many other public history roles. For thirty years, she worked as a history professor and higher education leader, most recently as Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History at Harvard University and Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Harvard Radcliffe Institute. In January 2024, she became the president of Monticello/The Thomas Jefferson Foundation.