About Jane Lancaster

Jane Lancaster, PhD, is an independent public historian who has taught at Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design. A wide-ranging writer and researcher, she has authored books including a prize-winning biography, an historic cross-America journey by motor car in 1916, a social history of the Providence Athenaeum, and contributed to a study of the Rhode Island Marine Corps of Artillery. She has worked extensively in women’s and African American history. Born in England, she has lived in Providence for more than thirty years and now divides her time between Rhode Island and Beverley, a small market town in Yorkshire, England.