#  History and Literature's Spring Distinguished Lecture: Professor Jane Kamensky 

 



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 **February 8, 2018** 

 06:00PM - 06:00PM EST 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Thompson Room, Rm. 110, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St. Cambridge, MA**  



 

 



 

 Professor Jane Kamensky will give this semester's [Distinguished Lecture](https://histlit.fas.harvard.edu/distinguished-lecture-series) on History and Literature on Thursday, February 8 from 6:00-7:30 pm in the Thompson Room (room 110) in the Barker Center (12 Quincy St.).

 [Jane Kamensky](/people/jane-kamensky) is Professor of History at Harvard University and Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is a historian of early America, the Atlantic world, and the age of revolutions, with particular interests in the histories of family, culture, and everyday life.  
  
Her most recent book, [A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley](http://books.wwnorton.com/books/A-Revolution-in-Color/), won the New York Historical Society’s Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History, and the Annibel Jenkins Biography Prize of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, and was a finalist for PEN’s Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography, the Marfield Prize for Arts Writing, and the George Washington Book Prize.

   ![Jane Kamensky talk flyer](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/history/files/kamensky_talk.jpg?itok=4bVjcK1p) 

 



 

 



 

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