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Drew Gilpin Faust
American historian and college administrator / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Catharine Drew Gilpin Faust (born September 18, 1947)[1] is an American historian who served as the 28th president of Harvard University, the first woman in that role.[2] She was Harvard's first president since 1672 without an undergraduate or graduate degree from Harvard and the first to have been raised in the South.[3][4] Faust is also the founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.[1] She has been ranked among the world's most powerful women by Forbes, including as the 33rd most powerful in 2014.[5]
Quick Facts 28th President of Harvard University, Preceded by ...
Drew Gilpin Faust | |
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![]() Faust at the World Economic Forum in 2013 | |
28th President of Harvard University | |
In office July 1, 2007 ā July 1, 2018 | |
Preceded by | Lawrence Summers Derek Bok (acting) |
Succeeded by | Lawrence Bacow |
Personal details | |
Born | Catharine Drew Gilpin (1947-09-18) September 18, 1947 (age 76) New York City, U.S. |
Spouse | Charles E. Rosenberg |
Children | 2 |
Education | Bryn Mawr College (BA) University of Pennsylvania (MA, PhD) |
Academic background | |
Thesis | A Sacred Circle: The Social Role of the Intellectual in the Old South, 1840ā1860 (1975) |
Doctoral advisor | Charles E. Rosenberg |
Academic work | |
Discipline | History |
Sub-discipline | American South |
Institutions | University of Pennsylvania Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Harvard University |
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