Jane Dammen McAuliffe

Jane Dammen McAuliffe
Jane Dammen McAuliffe
	McAuliffe in 2017
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
Institutions	Emory University (1986-92); University of Toronto (1992-1999); Georgetown University (1999-2008); Bryn Mawr College (2008 – 2013); Library of Congress (2015-);

Jane Dammen McAuliffe (born 1944) is an American educator, scholar of Islam and the inaugural director of national and international outreach at the Library of Congress.

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.

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