Jane Turner Censer

Jane Turner Censer is a professor emeritus of history and an author in the United States. She has written about Southern women and authored a book about Amélie Rives. She appeared on C-SPAN discussing the book and also joined Paul D. Escott to discuss his work on Abraham Lincoln and enslaved African Americans.

Censer graduated from Johns Hopkins University and was a National Humanities Center Fellow in 1983 and 1984. She was a professor at George Mason University.

She edited and wrote an introduction for Sherwood Bonner's feminist novel Like unto Like.

Writings North Carolina Planters and Their Children, 1800‑1860 Louisiana State University Press (1984) The Reconstruction of White Southern Womanhood, 1865-1895 (2003) The Princess of Albemarle: Amélie Rives, Author and Celebrity at the Fin de Siècle University of Virginia Press (2022)