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Jane Smith returned to Harvard Divinity School in July 2008 as associate
dean for faculty and academic affairs and Senior Lecturer in Divinity. She was at Harvard from 1973 to 1986,
serving as a professor of comparative religion and, at various times, associate director of the Center for
the Study of World Religions and associate dean of HDS. In 1986, Jane left Harvard to become vice president
and dean of Iliff School of Theology in Denver. In more recent years, she has been Professor of Islamic Studies
at Hartford Seminary and co-director of its Duncan Black Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and
Christian-Muslim Relations. She teaches and writes on women in Islam, Muslim communities in America, and historical and
theological relations between Christians and Muslims. She speaks and teaches on interfaith relations and is a frequent
participant in Christian-Muslim dialogue meetings. Among her recent publications are Islam in America (revised 2009);
Educating the Muslims of America (2009, co-edited with Farid Senzai and Yvonne Haddad); Muslims, Christians and the
Challenge of Interfaith Dialogue (2007); Muslim Women in America (2006, co-authored with Yvonne Haddad); and Visible
and Invisible: Muslim Communities in the West (2002).
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