Jane Dammen McAuliffe (born 1944) is an American educator,[1] scholar of Islam[2] and the inaugural director of national and international outreach at the Library of Congress.
Jane Dammen McAuliffe | |
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8th President of Bryn Mawr College | |
In office 2008–2013 | |
Preceded by | Nancy J. Vickers |
Succeeded by | Kim Cassidy |
Personal details | |
Born | 1944 (age 79–80) |
Citizenship | American |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | PhD University of Toronto, 1984; M.A. University of Toronto, 1979; B.A. Trinity College, 1968 |
Thesis | Perceptions of the Christians in Qur'anic Tafsir (1984) |
Doctoral advisor | George Michael Wickens |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Religious Studies; Islamic Studies |
Sub-discipline | Quranic (Islamic) studies; scriptural exegesis |
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She is a president emeritus of Bryn Mawr College and former dean of Georgetown College at Georgetown University. As a specialist in the Qur'an and its interpretation, McAuliffe has edited the six-volume Encyclopaedia of the Qurān and continues to lead the editorial team for the online edition of the work.
In 2015, she was appointed the inaugural director of national and international outreach, a newly created division of the Library of Congress.[3] Prior to that, she served as the director of The John W. Kluge Center, the residential research center for scholars at the Library of Congress.[4]
From 2008 to 2013, McAuliffe was president of Bryn Mawr College[5][6] and, from 1999 to 2008, she was dean of Georgetown College at Georgetown University.[citation needed]
At Georgetown, she was a tenured professor in the Department of History and the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies. McAuliffe held previous appointments at Emory University as professor and associate dean and at the University of Toronto as chair of the Department for the Study of Religion and professor of Islamic studies in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations. She received her BA in philosophy and classics from Trinity College, Washington, D.C., and her MA in religious studies and PhD in Islamic studies from the University of Toronto.[citation needed]
McAuliffe contributes at both national and international levels to Muslim-Christian dialogue.[7]
McAuliffe has been awarded fellowships by the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is an elected member of the American Philosophical Society,[8] the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is also the recipient of several honorary degrees: Trinity Washington University,[9] University of Toronto,[10] and University of Notre Dame.[11]
University of the People (Member of President's Council)[12]
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