Drew Gilpin Faust

Drew Gilpin Faust

(1947) historian United States

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Drew Gilpin Faust (born 1947) was a United States historian.

About Drew Gilpin Faust

Catharine Drew Gilpin Faust is an American historian and author who served as the 28th president of Harvard University from 2007 to 2018. She was Harvard's first female president, its first president since 1672 without a Harvard undergraduate or graduate degree, and the first to have been raised in the South. Faust was also the founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She was repeatedly named one of the world's 100 most powerful women by Forbes, reaching as high as 33rd in 2014.

Notable works:

The missing of the Somme

Awards:

Time 100|Bancroft Prize|Guggenheim Fellowship|American History Book Prize|Francis Parkman Prize|Jefferson Lecture|Virginia Women in History|honorary doctorate from Princeton University|honorary doctor of the University of Pennsylvania|honorary doctor of Yale University|honorary doctor of the Peking University|honorary doctor of Bowdoin College|honorary doctor of the University of Miami|Radcliffe Medal

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