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Jane Shaw  

Historian & Dean for Religious Life at Stanford University

Jane Shaw is a professor of religious studies and Dean for Religious Life at Stanford University. Shaw grew up in England and studied history and theology - earning a PhD in history at the University of California, Berkeley. She has received honorary doctorates from the Episcopal Divinity School and Colgate University.

Shaw taught history and theology at Oxford University for sixteen years. She was ordained a deacon in 1997 and a priest in 1998. She was Dean of Regent's Park College from 1998 to 2001, and then Official Fellow and Dean of Divinity of New College, Oxford from 2001 to 2010. She was subsequently Dean of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco until 2014.

Shaw is an advocate for the ordination of women to the priesthood and the episcopate in the Anglican church. She served as a vice chair of WATCH Women and the Church. Shaw has also advocated for LGBT Christians and victims of domestic violence. She sits on the Board of the NGO Human Rights Watch in California.

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