Lauren Kaminsky is Harvard's inaugural assistant dean for arts and humanities education and has long taught in the modern Europe field in history and literature, with a focus on Russia and Eastern Europe. She was previously the director of studies for the Committee on Degrees in History & Literature, where she helped define the future of arts and humanities at Harvard, and an interim executive director at the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, where she led organizational transformations and advanced pedagogical initiatives, including explorations of generative AI in teaching and learning.
Dr. Kaminsky received her Ph.D. in history from New York University and a B.A. in English and history from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research has been funded by Fulbright-Hays, the Social Science Research Council, the National Security Education Program, and New York University.