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Catharine Drew Gilpin Faust (born September 18, 1947) [1] is an American historian who served as the 28th president of Harvard University, the first woman in that role. [2] 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.
Drew Faust is a former president of Harvard University and a renowned scholar of American history. She wrote six books, including This Republic of Suffering, and received many awards and honors for her academic and leadership achievements.
Drew Gilpin Faust is a historian, author, and former president of Harvard University from 2007 to 2018. She expanded financial aid, international reach, and online learning at Harvard, and wrote books on the Civil War and American history.
Drew Gilpin Faust, American educator and historian who was the first female president of Harvard University (2007–18). She frequently wrote about the American Civil War, and her books included This Republic of Suffering (2008). Learn more about Faust’s life and career.
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Drew Gilpin Faust is a historian and the author of seven books, including This Republic of Suffering and Necessary Trouble. She served as president of Harvard from 2007 to 2018 and is the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Research Professor.
May 3, 2018 · Decades later, her study of the conflict’s devastating toll in blood and grief, “This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War” (2008), was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. The inequality she saw in the world drove Faust’s early devotion to civil rights.
