Drew 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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Catharine Drew Gilpin September 18, 1947 Clarke County, VA, 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 |
 Booknotes interview with Faust on Mothers of Invention, September 1, 1996, C-SPAN
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Presentation by Faust on This Republic of Suffering, January 9, 2008, C-SPAN
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Catharine Drew Gilpin Faust, (born September 18, 1947) an American historian, is the President of Harvard University. Faust is the first woman to serve as Harvard's president and the university's 28th president. 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. Faust is set to step down as President of Harvard in June 2018.
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 a BA magna cum laude with honors in history from Bryn Mawr College in 1968. She earned an MA in American civilization from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971 and a Ph.D. 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. A specialist in the history of the South in the antebellum period and Civil War, Faust rose to become Walter Annenberg Professor of History.
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