BIOGRAPHY FELLOW 2022 – 2023

Jane Kamensky

For a biography of Candida Royalle

Jane Kamensky is 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. 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. She serves as a Trustee of the Museum of the American Revolution, and as one of the leaders of Educating for American Democracy, a national initiative to transform K-12 history and civic instruction. At the Leon Levy Center, she’ll complete her next book, Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below, to be published by W.W. Norton.