 She went to graduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and obtained her PhD in Neuroscience in 2003, working under the supervision of Suzanne Corkin.Kensinger subsequently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Radiology of Massachusetts General Hospital and at Harvard University, where she worked under the supervision of Daniel Schacter.Kensinger joined the faculty of the Department of Psychology at Boston College in 2006 and was promoted to Professor in 2013.