Drew Gilpin Faust
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 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(s) |
Stephen E. Faust
(m. 1968; div. 1976) |
| 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 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.