Jane Dammen McAuliffe
American educator and scholar of Islam (born 1944) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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Quick Facts 8th President of Bryn Mawr College, Preceded by ...
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.