Drew Gilpin Faust

Historian, Organization leader

1947 –

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Who is Drew Gilpin Faust?

Drew Gilpin Faust, an American historian and professor, is the first female president of Harvard University. A veteran Ivy League professor and administrator, Faust is known especially for her work on the history of the American South. She has won the Society of American Historians Francis Parkman Prize in 1997 for her book, Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War.

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Born
Sep 18, 1947
New York City
Also known as
  • Catharine Drew Gilpin
  • Catherine Drew Gilpin Faust
Parents
Siblings
Spouses
Children
Religion
  • Anglicanism
Ethnicity
  • White American
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • PhD, University of Pennsylvania
    American Civilization
    ( - 1975)
  • Master of Arts, University of Pennsylvania
    American Civilization
    ( - 1971)
  • Bachelor of Arts, Bryn Mawr College
    History
    ( - 1968)
  • Concord Academy
    ( - 1964)
Employment
  • University President, Harvard University
    (2007 - )
  • Professor of History, Harvard University
    (2007 - )
  • Dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
    (2001 - 2007)
  • Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
    (1976 - 2001)
Lived in
  • Cambridge
  • Clarke County

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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