Education
Kennan was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After Kennan received her B.A. (summa cum laude) in history from Mount Holyoke in 1960. On a Marshall Scholarship she pursued a second B.A. (subsequently M.A.) at Oxford University, more specifically St. Hilda's College, which she completed in 1962. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1966.
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