Background
Douglass, Jane Dempsey was born on March 22, 1933 in Wilmington, Delaware, United States. Daughter of Hazell Brownlie and Ethel Katherine (Smith) Dempsey.
Douglass, Jane Dempsey was born on March 22, 1933 in Wilmington, Delaware, United States. Daughter of Hazell Brownlie and Ethel Katherine (Smith) Dempsey.
AB, Syracuse University, 1954. Postgraduate, University Geneva, Switzerland, 1955. AM, Radcliffe College, 1961.
Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1963. Doctor of Theology (honorary), University Geneva, 1994. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Franklin and Marshall College, 1992.
Doctor of Divinity (honorary), University St. Andrews, Scotland, 1992. STD (honorary), MacMurray College, 2000.
Associate director, Presbyterian Student Center, Columbia, Missouri, 1955-1958;
teaching fellow, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1959-1962;
from instructor to professor, School of Theology at Claremont and Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, Ca., 1963-1985;
Hazel Thompson McCord professor history theology, Princeton (New Jersey) Theological Seminary, 1985-1998;
emerita, Princeton (New Jersey) Theological Seminary, since 1998. President American Society Church History, 1983. Vice president World Alliance of Reformed Churches, 1989-1990, president 1990-1997, member Executive Committee, since 1997.
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Married Gordon Klene Douglass, August 23, 1964. Children: Alan Bruce, Anne Lorine, John Gordon.