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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.
Aug 16, 2023 · In “Necessary Trouble,” Drew Gilpin Faust, Harvard’s former leader, wrestles with her conservative Southern upbringing, and the unfinished business of the Civil War.
Drew Gilpin Faust is President Emerita of Harvard University and the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor. As president of Harvard from 2007 to 2018, Faust expanded financial aid to improve access to Harvard College for students of all economic backgrounds and advocated for increased federal funding for scientific research.
A memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America. Chronicles the impact of the Civil War’s enormous death toll on the lives of nineteenth-century Americans. New edition with new introduction forthcoming September 12, 2023.
Sep 14, 2024 · Drew Gilpin Faust, American educator and historian who was the first female president of Harvard University (2007–18). She frequently wrote about the American Civil War, and her books included This Republic of Suffering (2008). Learn more about Faust’s life and career.
Drew Gilpin Faust is President Emerita of Harvard University and the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor. As president of Harvard from 2007 to 2018, Faust expanded financial aid to improve access to Harvard College for students of all economic backgrounds and advocated for increased federal funding for scientific research.
Aug 22, 2023 · Drew Gilpin Faust is known as a historian, a civil rights activist and the first woman president of Harvard — but she was groomed to become a proper Southern lady.
Drew Gilpin Faust is the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Research Professor at Harvard, where she served as president from 2007-2018. Faust previously served as founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (2001-2007).
Aug 23, 2023 · Drew Gilpin Faust. The memoir charts Faust’s escape from the conservative strictures of her privileged Virginia upbringing. Her letter to Eisenhower becomes all the more dramatic when viewed alongside family history.
Jul 28, 2023 · Former University President Drew Gilpin Faust retired from teaching on June 30, capping a career that has spanned nearly half a century — and vacating one of Harvard’s coveted University ...
