| 1 | Name: | Dr. Jane Dammen McAuliffe | |
| Institution: | Library of Congress; Bryn Mawr College | ||
| Year Elected: | 2007 | ||
| Class: | 4. Humanities | ||
| Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | ||
| Residency: | Resident | ||
| Living? : | Living | ||
| Birth Date: | 1944 | ||
In 2015, Jane McAuliffe was appointed the inaugural Director of National and International Outreach, a newly created division of the Library of Congress. She retired in October 2019. 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. She is President Emeritus of Bryn Mawr College. She had served as the President from 2008 to 2013. Her primary areas of specialization are the Qur'an and its interpretive tradition, the early history of Islam and the many modalities of Muslim-Christian interaction. For the last decade she has published the six volumes of the Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an, an international scholarly project which has resulted in the first multi-volume reference work on the Qur'an in Western languages. Other publications include Qur'anic Christians: An Analysis of Classical and Modern Exegesis (1991), Abbasid Authority Affirmed: The Early Years of al-Mansur (1995), With Reverence for the Word: Medieval Scriptural Exegesis in Judaism, Christianity and Islam (2002) and The Cambridge Companion to the Qur'an (2006). Dr. McAuliffe is currently the Islam editor for the Norton Anthology of World Religions, co-edits a book series for Brill Publishers and serves on the editorial boards of a number of scholarly journals. For two decades she has been involved in many forms of Muslim-Christian dialogue, both nationally and internationally. Most recently this has involved work with the Vatican, Lambeth Palace, the Library of Congress and the Royal Jordanian Institute for Interfaith Studies. Dr. McAuliffe's research has been supported by fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Connaught Foundation and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Council on Foreign Relations. Before being named president of Bryn Mawr College in 2008, Dr. McAuliffe was Dean of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies and Professor of History at Georgetown University. She is currently a distinguished fellow of Georgetown’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. She previously held faculty and administrative positions at Emory University and at the University of Toronto. In 2004, she served as president of the American Academy of Religion, the elected leadership position for this 10,000 member professional organization. Dr. McAuliffe is married to Dr. Dennis McAuliffe, a scholar of medieval Italian literature at Georgetown University. They are the parents of four children. | |||