Jane Shaw

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The Revd Canon Dr Jane Alison Shaw (born 1965) is a British priest and scholar.

Shaw read Modern History at Regent's Park College, Oxford, (BA 1985, MA 1991), Theology at Harvard University (MDiv 1988), and completed a PhD in History at the University of California, Berkeley (1994). She has also received honorary doctorates from the Graduate Theological Foundation and Episcopal Divinity School.

She was a Fellow of Regent's Park from 1994 to 2001 (Dean 1998-2001). Having trained on the St Albans and Oxford Ministry Course, she was ordained deacon in 1997 and priest in 1998. She has been Official Fellow, Chaplain, and Dean of Divinity of New College, Oxford, since 2001.

She also holds appointments as Honorary Chaplain and Honorary Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, Director of the Oxford University Summer Programme in Theology, theological consultant to the House of Bishops of the General Synod of the Church of England, and a Conference Consultant to the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement.^[1]

Her interests include the Enlightenment and issues in gender and sexuality. She has published numerous books, and articles in scholarly journals, and edited Culture and the Nonconformist Tradition (with Alan Kreider; Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1999) and The Call for Women Bishops (with Harriet Harris; afterword by Marilyn McCord Adams; London: SPCK, 2004). She is also a frequent contributor to The Guardian and the Church Times.