Drew Gilpin Faust

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.

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1947 – Present
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Born in
New York City
Educated at
Harvard UniversityUniversity of PennsylvaniaBryn Mawr CollegeConcord Academy
Awards
🏆 Time 100🏆 Bancroft Prize🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship🏆 American History Book Prize🏆 Francis Parkman Prize

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  • 1947

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