Drew Gilpin Faust
| Drew Gilpin Faust | |
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Drew Gilpin Faust in 2011
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| 28th President of Harvard University | |
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Assumed office July 1, 2007 |
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| Preceded by |
Lawrence Summers Derek Bok (Acting) |
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| Born |
Catharine Drew Gilpin September 18, 1947 New York, New York, U.S. |
| Spouse(s) | Charles E. Rosenberg |
| Children | Jessica Rosenberg Leah Rosenberg |
| Residence | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Alma mater |
Bryn Mawr College University of Pennsylvania |
| Profession | College administrator, Academic |
| Website | Office of the President of Harvard University |
Catharine Drew Gilpin Faust (born September 18, 1947) is an American historian, educator, college administrator and the President of Harvard University. Faust is the first woman to serve as Harvard's president and the university's 28th president overall. Faust is the fifth woman to serve as president of an Ivy League university and is the former dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Faust is Harvard's first president since 1672 without an undergraduate or graduate degree from Harvard, and the first to have been brought up in the South. In 2014, she was ranked as the 33rd most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.
She was born Catharine Drew Gilpin in New York City and raised in Clarke County, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley. She is the daughter of Catharine Ginna (née Mellick) and McGhee Tyson Gilpin; her father was a Princeton graduate and breeder of thoroughbred horses. Her paternal great-grandfather, Lawrence Tyson, was a U.S. Senator from Tennessee during the 1920s. Faust also has New England ancestry and is a descendant of the Puritan divine Rev. Jonathan Edwards, the third president of Princeton.
She graduated from Concord Academy, Concord, Massachusetts, in 1964. She earned her BA from Bryn Mawr College in 1968. She graduated magna cum laude with honors in history. She attended the University of Pennsylvania for graduate work, earning her MA in 1971 and her Ph.D. in American Civilization in 1975 with a dissertation entitled A Sacred Circle: The Social Role of the Intellectual in the Old South, 1840–1860. In the same year, she joined the University of Pennsylvania faculty as assistant professor of American civilization. Based on her research and teaching, she rose to Walter Annenberg Professor of History. A specialist in the history of the South in the antebellum period and Civil War, Faust developed new perspectives in intellectual history of the antebellum South and in the changing roles of women during the Civil War.
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