Jane Shaw

The Very Reverend Jane Shaw
Born	1963 (age 53–54) Norwich, United Kingdom
Alma mater	University of Oxford, M.A. Harvard University, M.Div. U.C. Berkeley, PhD.
Occupation	Historian, Anglican priest

Jane Alison Shaw (born 1963) is a British historian and Anglican priest. She is Professor of Religious Studies and Dean for Religious Life at Stanford University.

Jane Shaw grew up in Norwich, England, on the grounds of the Great Hospital, a medieval hospital with its own chapel and cloisters where her father was master. She attended Norwich High School for Girls, before reading modern history at Regent's Park College, Oxford (BA 1985, MA 1991) and theology at Harvard University (MDiv 1988). She completed a PhD in history at the University of California, Berkeley (1994). She has received honorary doctorates from the Episcopal Divinity School and Colgate University. In 2013, Shaw gave the baccalaureate address at Colgate University.

Shaw taught history and theology at Oxford University for sixteen years. She was a fellow of Regent's Park College from 1994 to 2001 (Dean 1998–2001), and then Official Fellow and Dean of Divinity of New College, Oxford (2001–2010). Having trained in the St Albans and Oxford Ministry Course, she was ordained deacon in 1997 and priest in 1998. Shaw was Dean of Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, from 2010 to 2014. She is also a Fellow and the Evelyn Underhill Professor of Historical Theology at the Graduate Theological Foundation.

Shaw has held appointments as an honorary chaplain and honorary canon of Christ Church, Oxford, Director of the Oxford University Summer Programme in Theology, and Canon Theologian of Salisbury Cathedral, a new post created in 2007 to assist the bishop and cathedral chapter in their theological reflections. She served as a governor of a British public boys' school, Winchester College.

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