Drew Gilpin Faust
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 – July 1, 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Lawrence Summers Derek Bok (acting) |
| Succeeded by | Lawrence Bacow |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Catharine Drew Gilpin September 18, 1947 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, 1840–1860 (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 |
Catharine Drew Gilpin Faust (born September 18, 1947) is an American historian who served as the 28th president of Harvard University, the first woman in that role. 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. Faust is also the founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She has been ranked among the world's most powerful women by Forbes, including as the 33rd most powerful in 2014.