Jane Shaw

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.{{cite web|title=Masters of the Great Hospital|url=http://www.thegreathospital.co.uk/files/Masters.pdf}}{{cite news|last=May|first=Meredith|title=Very Rev. Jane Shaw, Grace Cathedral Dean|url=http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Very-Rev-Jane-Shaw-Grace-Cathedral-dean-4397416.php|newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle|date=30 March 2013}} She attended Norwich High School for Girls. She studied modern history at University of Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1985.{{Crockford| surname = Shaw | forenames = Jane Alison | id = 599 | accessed = 9 October 2018}} She went on to study theology at Harvard University, graduating with a Master of Divinity (MDiv) degree in 1988.{{cite web|url=http://hds.harvard.edu/news/2012/03/13/slideshow-jane-shaw-mdiv-88-speaks-hds|title=Slideshow:Jane Shaw, M.Div. '88, Speaks at HDS|work=Harvard Divinity School|date=13 March 2012|access-date=20 August 2014|archive-date=26 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826161718/http://hds.harvard.edu/news/2012/03/13/slideshow-jane-shaw-mdiv-88-speaks-hds|url-status=dead}} She completed a PhD in history at the University of California, Berkeley in 1994.{{cite web|title=Jane Shaw, Department of History|url=http://history.berkeley.edu/people/jane-shaw|publisher=University of California, Berkeley|access-date=16 August 2014|archive-date=19 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819084639/http://history.berkeley.edu/people/jane-shaw|url-status=dead}} She has received honorary doctorates from the Episcopal Divinity School and Colgate University.

Shaw taught history and theology at Oxford University for 16 years. She was a fellow of Regent's Park College, Oxford from 1994 to 2001 (dean, 1998–2001).{{Crockford| surname = Shaw| forenames = Jane Alison| id = 599| accessed = 22 June 2018}} Having trained in the St Albans and Oxford Ministry Course, she was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1997 and as a priest in 1998. She served her curacy at University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, as a non-stipendiary minister between 1997 and 2001.{{Crockford| surname = Shaw | forenames = Jane Alison | id = 599 | accessed = 16 November 2023}} Then, in 2001, she moved to New College, Oxford, where she became the first female Dean of Divinity, and was elected a Fellow.{{cite web |title=Shaw, Prof. Jane Alison, (born 28 April 1963), Principal, Harris Manchester College, Oxford, since 2018; Pro Vice-Chancellor and Professor of the History of Religion, University of Oxford, since 2018 |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U290756 |website=Who's Who 2023 |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=16 November 2023 |language=en |date=1 December 2022}} She was made an honorary canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford in 2005, and served as canon theologian of Salisbury Cathedral from 2007 to 2012.

In 2010, Shaw left Oxford to take up the position of Dean of Grace Cathedral, San Francisco. In 2014, she moved to Stanford University to be Professor of Religious Studies and Dean for Religious Life.{{cite news |last1=Dusen |first1=Lisa Van |title=First Person: A conversation with Jane Shaw, dean of religious life and professor of religious studies at Stanford University |url=https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2014/12/21/first-person-a-conversation-with-jane-shaw-dean-of-religious-life-and-professor-of-religious-studies-at-stanford-university |access-date=16 November 2023 |work=Palo Alto Weekly |date=22 December 2014 |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Carr |first1=Jacqueline |title=Jane Shaw named new dean for religious life |url=https://stanforddaily.com/2014/07/21/jane-shaw-named-new-dean-for-religious-life/ |access-date=16 November 2023 |work=The Stanford Daily |date=21 July 2014}}{{cite web |title=Dean of Grace Cathedral to become Stanford dean for religious life |url=https://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/july/dean-religious-life-072114.html |website=Stanford News |publisher=Stanford University |access-date=16 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220929144317/https://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/july/dean-religious-life-072114.html |archive-date=29 September 2022 |language=en |date=22 July 2014}}

In February 2018, Shaw was announced as the next principal of Harris Manchester College, Oxford.{{cite web |title=Stanford's Jane Shaw to be the new Principal of Harris Manchester College, Oxford |url=http://www.hmc.ox.ac.uk/news/principal-appointment/ |website=Harris Manchester College |publisher=University of Oxford |access-date=16 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422142714/http://www.hmc.ox.ac.uk/news/principal-appointment/ |archive-date=22 April 2021 |date=February 2018}} She took up the appointment on 1 October 2018.{{cite web |title=Stanford's Jane Shaw to be the new Principal of Harris Manchester College |url=https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2018-02-28-stanford%E2%80%99s-jane-shaw-be-new-principal-harris-manchester-college |website=www.ox.ac.uk |publisher=University of Oxford |access-date=16 November 2023 |language=en |date=28 February 2018}} Under her leadership, the college achieved record-breaking academic standing at the University of Oxford, ranking 3rd among all colleges in the Norrington Table in 2022.{{cite web |title=New Norrington table record for HMC |url=https://www.hmc.ox.ac.uk/article/new-norrington-table-record-for-hmc |website=Harris Manchester College |publisher=University of Oxford |access-date=28 December 2023}} She is additionally Professor of the History of Religion in the Faculty of Theology and Religion,{{cite web |title=Professor Jane Shaw |url=https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-jane-shaw |website=Faculty of Theology and Religion |publisher=University of Oxford |access-date=16 November 2023 |language=en}} and a pro-vice-chancellor without portfolio of the University of Oxford.{{cite web |title=University Officers |url=https://www.ox.ac.uk/about/organisation/university-officers |website=www.ox.ac.uk |publisher=University of Oxford |access-date=16 November 2023 |language=en}}

Shaw took up the position of chair of the board of the Pitt Rivers Museum in 2022, and chair of the management board of the Rothermere American Institute in 2020. {{cite web|title=Pitt Rivers Museum Board of Visitors|url=https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/board-visitors}}{{cite web|title=Governance |url=https://www.rai.ox.ac.uk/governance |access-date=28 December 2023}} She 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.salisburycathedral.org.uk/press-release-archive/salisbury-cathedrals-canon-theologian-revd-canon-dr-jane-alison-shaw-appointed |title=Salisbury Cathedral's Canon Theologian |work=salisburycathedral.org.uk |date=25 June 2010 |access-date=20 August 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826115057/http://www.salisburycathedral.org.uk/press-release-archive/salisbury-cathedrals-canon-theologian-revd-canon-dr-jane-alison-shaw-appointed |archive-date=26 August 2014 }} She served as a governor of a British boys' public school, Winchester College.{{cite web|title=Winchester College Annual Report|url=http://www.winchestercollege.org/UserFiles/WC_Ann_Report_09.pdf|access-date=22 August 2014|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304092257/http://www.winchestercollege.org/UserFiles/WC_Ann_Report_09.pdf|url-status=dead}}

Shaw's academic writing focuses on modern religion, the arts, gender, and the impact of technology on society.{{cite web |url=https://www.hmc.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-jane-shaw |title=Professor Jane Shaw, FRHistS |access-date=28 December 2023}} Her book "Gen Z, Explained" was an interdisciplinary study of Generation Z (18 - 25 year olds).{{cite web |url=https://www.hmc.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-jane-shaw |title=Professor Jane Shaw, FRHistS |access-date=28 December 2023}} As an historian, she focuses on lived religion, which Robert Orsi describes as "the volatile and unpredictable nature of religious creation".{{cite web |url=http://lareviewofbooks.org/review/back-to-the-garden-jane-shaws-octavia-daughter-of-god |title=Back to the Garden: Jane Shaw's "Octavia Daughter of God" |first= Lindsay |last= Reckson |work=Los Angeles Review of Books |date=12 January 2012 |access-date=5 September 2014}}{{cite web |url=https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1P3-1403837591/miracles-in-enlightenment-england |title=Miracles in Enlightenment England |first=Robert G. |last=Ingram |work=Anglican and Episcopal History |publisher= |date=December 2007 |access-date= |archive-date=8 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308235506/https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1P3-1403837591/miracles-in-enlightenment-england |url-status=dead }} "Miracles in Enlightenment England" showed how the experience of miracles in Enlightenment England challenged the elites.{{cite journal |url=http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8753481&fulltextType=BR&fileId=S0021937100012211 |title=Jane Shaw 'Miracles in Enlightenment England' |first= Ellen |last= Jenkins |journal=The Journal of British Studies |publisher= Cambridge Journals Online |date=October 2007 |volume=46 |issue=4 |pages=949–950 |doi=10.1086/522726 |access-date=5 September 2014|url-access=subscription }}{{cite web |url= http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300112726 |title=Miracles in Enlightenment England |work=Yale University Press |access-date=5 September 2014}} Her book Octavia Daughter of God won the 2012 San Francisco Book Festival History Prize, sponsored by JM Northern Media LLC.{{cite web |url= http://www.litquake.org/authors/shaw-the-very-reverend-dr-jane |title= Litquake Celebrating 15 Years |access-date= 5 September 2014 |archive-date= 12 August 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140812062858/http://www.litquake.org/authors/shaw-the-very-reverend-dr-jane |url-status= dead }} It unearthed the story of a female Messiah figure living in Bedford, England in the early twentieth century; Mabel "Octavia" Barltrop.{{cite news |url=http://ahr.oxfordjournals.org/content/118/1/260.extract |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140121115234/http://ahr.oxfordjournals.org/content/118/1/260.extract |url-status=dead |archive-date=2014-01-21 |title=Jane Shaw. Octavia, Daughter of God |first= A.|last= Twells|work=The American Historical Review |date= February 2013|publisher=oxfordjournals.org |access-date=5 September 2014}} The book was praised for showing how, and under what circumstances, a religion grows.{{cite news|url=http://www.literaryreview.co.uk/ridley_06_11.html |title=Paradise in Bedford |first=Jane |last=Ridley |work=Literary Review |date=6 June 2011 |access-date=5 September 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111019102040/http://www.literaryreview.co.uk/ridley_06_11.html |archive-date=19 October 2011 }}{{cite news |url= https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jun/03/octavia-daughter-of-god-review|title=Octavia, Daughter of God: The Story of a Female Messiah and Her Followers by Jane Shaw – review|first= Peter|last= Stanford|work=The Observer |date= 3 June 2011|publisher=Guardian News and Media Limited |location=London |access-date=5 September 2014}}{{cite news |url=http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/culture/books/non_fiction/article634419.ece |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150211174754/http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/culture/books/non_fiction/article634419.ece |url-status=dead |archive-date=11 February 2015 |title=Octavia, Daughter of God by Jane Shaw – review|first= John|last= Carey|work=Sunday Times |date= 29 May 2011 |publisher=Times Newspapers Limited |location=London |access-date=5 September 2014}}

Shaw's work often appeals to doubt and the questioning of faith, saying, "If we think faith is about certainty then we can become arrogant and think we know God wholly and that is very limiting." Themes of loss, doubt, and forgiveness are explored in A Practical Christianity. She also focusses on art and spirituality, and what she calls "the moral imagination", which she describes as "a deep responsiveness to that which is different from us".{{cite web |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ariane-zurcher/ideas-that-make-a-differe_b_1633117.html|title=Ideas that make a difference at the Aspen Ideas Festival|first= Ariane|last= Zurcher|work= Huffington Post |date=3 June 2012|access-date= 28 August 2014}}{{cite web |url=http://www.aspeninstitute.org/about/blog/jane-shaw-reminds-us-cultivate-our-moral-imaginations|title= Jane Shaw Reminds Us to Develop Moral Imaginations|work= Aspen Idea Blog |date=1 November 2012|access-date= 28 August 2014}} In The Mystical Turn, a series of five programmes on BBC Radio 3, Shaw explored the relationship between spirituality and mysticism in the works of Russian artist Kandinsky and his contemporaries.{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0116h5g|title= The Essay|work= BBC Radio 3 |date=20 May 2011|access-date= 28 August 2014}}{{cite web |url=http://www.radiolistings.co.uk|title= The Mystical Turn|work= radiolistings.co.uk |date=16 May 2011|access-date= 28 August 2014}}

She writes for the Financial Times and Prospect magazine.{{Cite web |title=Financial Times |url=https://www.ft.com/stream/1961d4d2-3ccf-4598-81e2-bdec77522ec2}}{{Cite web |title=Prospect Magazine |url=https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/author/jane-shaw}}

Shaw has combined the work of a church historian with active participation in the life of the Anglican churches and campaigning for the ordination of women to the priesthood and the episcopate. She served as vice-chair of WATCH Women and the Church.{{cite web|url=http://oldsite.womenandthechurch.org/news.htm |title=WATCH news and events |access-date=5 September 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140911201609/http://oldsite.womenandthechurch.org/news.htm |archive-date=11 September 2014 }} She regularly writes for The Times{{cite news| title=After 70 Years, it's high time for action on women priests|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/after-70-years-its-high-time-for-action-on-women-priests-k7kfnhjqqrg |work=The Times|access-date=5 September 2014|date=1 February 2014}}{{cite news|last1=The Times|title=The shock of the new signaled a real spiritual revolution in art|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/faith/article3774452.ece |access-date=5 September 2014|date=25 May 2013}}{{cite web|url=https://www.thetimes.com/comment/register/article/the-hearts-antique-urge-to-believe-without-belonging-75g3r9d2tcv|title=The heart's antique urge to believe without belonging|work=The Times|date=13 May 2011 |access-date=5 October 2014}}{{cite web|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/faith/article3003322.ece|title=After all the excitement it takes time for reality to sink in|work=The Times|date=30 April 2011 |access-date=5 October 2014}}{{cite web|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/start-the-new-year-by-committing-to-see-the-world-anew-q2b8rbl56jd|title=Start the new year by committing to see the world anew|work=The Times|date=31 December 2010 |access-date=5 October 2014}} and the Guardian on issues pertaining to politics, religion, and the arts.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/oct/06/religion.gayrights|title=Face to faith|work=The Guardian|date=5 October 2007 |access-date=5 October 2014}}{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/sep/22/afghanistan.terrorism6|title=God, love and the terrorists|work=The Guardian|date=22 September 2001 |access-date=5 October 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2013/26-april/comment/opinion/men,-women,-and-difference|title=Men, women, and difference|publisher=Churchtimes.co.uk|access-date=5 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006113141/http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2013/26-april/comment/opinion/men,-women,-and-difference|archive-date=6 October 2014|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk/archives/006026.html|title=Thinking Anglicans: Men, women, and difference|date=3 May 2013 |publisher=Thinkinganglicans.org.uk|access-date=5 October 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2012/20-january/comment/when-the-c-of-e-wanted-to-talk|title=When the C of E wanted to talk|publisher=Churchtimes.co.uk|access-date=5 October 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk/archives/003928.html|title=Thinking Anglicans: General Convention revisited|date=August 2009 |publisher=Thinkinganglicans.org.uk|access-date=5 October 2014}} Shaw was an original member of a thinktank, the Chicago Consultation, advocating for LGBT Christians, and she has worked with V-Day on behalf of women who are victims of violence.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQNyLAxvCqw |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211219/gQNyLAxvCqw |archive-date=2021-12-19 |url-status=live|title=The Chicago Consultation / Context of BO33|work=YouTube|date=2 July 2009 |access-date=5 October 2014}}{{cbignore}}{{cite web|url=http://www.chicagoconsultation.org/?p=21|title=Steering Committee " Chicago Consultation|publisher=Chicagoconsultation.org|access-date=5 October 2014}}{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=936-YoC1Ja8 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211219/936-YoC1Ja8 |archive-date=2021-12-19 |url-status=live|title="I Am Rising...": Jane Shaw, San Francisco|work=YouTube|date=11 December 2012 |access-date=5 October 2014}}{{cbignore}} In 2013, she joined the Board of the NGO Human Rights Watch in California.{{cite web|url=https://www.hrw.org/san-francisco/committee|title=California Committee North – Human Rights Watch|publisher=Hrw.org|access-date=5 October 2014}}

• {{cite book |author1=Roberta Katz |author2=Sarah Ogilvie |author3=Jane Shaw |author4=Linda Woodhead| title = Gen Z, Explained| year = 2022| publisher = University of Chicago Press| location = Chicago| isbn = 978-0226823966 }}
• {{cite book| author = Jane Shaw| title = Miracles in Enlightenment England| year = 2006| publisher = Yale University Press| location = New Haven and London| isbn = 9780300112726 }}
• {{cite book| author = Jane Shaw| title = Octavia, Daughter of God: the story of a female messiah and her followers| year = 2011| publisher = Jonathan Cape| location = London| isbn = 9780224075008 }}
• {{cite book| author = Jane Shaw| title = A Practical Christianity| year = 2012| publisher = SPCK| location = London| isbn = 9780281068166 }}
• {{cite book| author = Jane Shaw| title = Pioneers of Modern Spirituality| year = 2018| publisher = DLT| location = London| isbn = 9780232532869 }}

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