Jane Alison Shaw (born 1963) is Principal of Harris Manchester College, Oxford, Professor of the History of Religion, and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Oxford. Previously she was Professor of Religious Studies and Dean of Religious Life at Stanford University and Dean of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. Life and career 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, a private school. She studied modern history at University of Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1985. She went on to study theology at Harvard University, graduating with a Master of Divinity (M.Div.) degree in 1988. She completed a Ph.D. in history at the University of California, Berkeley (1994). 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 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. 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. She served as a governor of a British boys' public school, Winchester College. Writing Shaw's interests include the Enlightenment, modern religious history, ethics, and issues in gender, sexuality, and the role of technology in society. She has published several books, including Miracles in Enlightenment England (Yale University Press, 2006), Octavia, Daughter of God (Jonathan Cape, 2011), A Practical Christianity (SPCK, 2012), and Pioneers of Modern Spirituality (DLT, 2017). She edited Culture and the Nonconformist Tradition (with Alan Kreider; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), The Call for Women Bishops (with Harriet Harris; afterword by Marilyn McCord Adams; London: SPCK, 2004) and History of a Modern Millennial Movement (with Philip Lockley, Bloomsbury, 2017). Shaw's academic writing focuses on lived religion, which Robert Orsi describes as "the volatile and unpredictable nature of religious creation". "Miracles in Enlightenment England" showed how the experience of miracles in Enlightenment England challenged the elites.