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 (Making Time: Lillian Moller Gilbreth—A Live Beyond “Cheaper by the Dozen”), an historic cross-America journey by motor car in 1916 (Motor to the Golden Gate, a social history of the Providence Athenaeum (Inquire Within: A Social History of the Providence Athenaeum Since 1753), and contributed to a study of the Rhode Island Marine Corps of Artillery (“Rhode Red Legs”: A History of the Providence Marine Corps of Artillery and the 103d Field Artillery, Rhode Island National Guard, 1801-2010). 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.
