Jane Dammen McAuliffe was appointed Dean of the College at Georgetown University in 1999. She is 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. Dr. McAuliffe is an internationally known scholar of Islamic studies. Her numerous publications have focused primarily on the Qur’an and its interpretation, on early Islamic history and on the multiple relations between Islam and Christianity.

Dr. McAuliffe has long been active in various forms and forums of Muslim-Christian dialogue, on both the national and international levels, and served for ten years on the Vatican’s Commission for Religious Relations with Muslims. She has also been on the boards of the American Academy of Religion, the Association of Theological Schools, and the Center for Applied Research on the Apostolate. In 2005 she was appointed to the Board of Trustees of Trinity University in Washington, DC.