Drew Gilpin Faust

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.

Drew Gilpin Faust
Faust at the World Economic Forum in 2013
28th President of Harvard University
In office
July 1, 2007  July 1, 2018
Preceded byLawrence Summers
Derek Bok (acting)
Succeeded byLawrence Bacow
Personal details
Born
Catharine Drew Gilpin

(1947-09-18) September 18, 1947
New York City, U.S.
SpouseCharles E. Rosenberg
Children2
EducationBryn Mawr College (BA)
University of Pennsylvania (MA, PhD)
Academic background
ThesisA Sacred Circle: The Social Role of the Intellectual in the Old South, 1840–1860 (1975)
Doctoral advisorCharles E. Rosenberg
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-disciplineAmerican South
InstitutionsUniversity of Pennsylvania
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Harvard University
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