Jane McAuliffe, a scholar of Islam and the Qur’an and past president of Bryn Mawr College among other prestigious leadership posts, gave the annual Sorensen Lecture at Yale Divinity School on Thursday, February 20. Titled “The Christian History of America’s Qur’an.”
Jane McAuliffe recently retired from a senior role at the Library of Congress and is currently a senior fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs at Georgetown University. Her previous positions include President of Bryn Mawr, Dean of Arts and Sciences at Georgetown University, and Professor at the University of Toronto and at Emory University. McAuliffe has published extensively on Islam and the Qur’an. She is past president of the American Academy of Religion and a member of the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants.
