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Jane Dammen McAuliffe is an internationally known Islamic studies scholar who specialises in Qur'anic exegesis. She was the eighth President of Bryn Mawr College, beginning her tenure in July 2008. Before that, she served as Dean of Georgetown College at Georgetown University from 1999 to 2008. At Georgetown, she was also a tenured Professor in the Department of History and the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies. Dr. 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.
On March 19, 2013, Bryn Mawr announced that McAuliffe would step down as president at the end of her then-current term; she officially left the position on June 30, 2013.
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