Jane Dammen McAuliffe

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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,^[1] scholar of Islam^[2] 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.