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Catherine Drew Gilpin Faust (born September 18, 1947 ) is an American historian . She was president of Harvard University .

Life

Faust during the WEF 2013

Catherine Drew Gilpin was born in 1947, the only daughter of Catharine and McGhee Tyson Gilpin, a horse breeder, and grew up in the Shenandoah Valley in Clarke County , Virginia . She comes from a well-off, traditional Protestant family. Her father, her two uncles, two of her three brothers, and numerous other male relatives studied at Princeton University . Since no women were allowed there at the time, after graduating from Concord Academy in Concord in 1964 , she went to Bryn Mawr College and received her bachelor's degree in history there in 1968 with magna cum laude . After completing her Masters in 1971, she did her Ph.D. in "American Civilization" 1978 at the University of Pennsylvania . In 1976 she became Assistant Professor at Penn (University of Pennsylvania), from 1980 Associate Professor and from 1984 Full Professor in "American Civilization". In 1988 she held the "Stanley Sheerr Professor of History" chair, and from 1989 to 2000 the "Annenberg Professor of History" endowed chair. From 1996 to 2000, she directed Penn's women’s studies program . In 1982 and 1996 she was recognized for her teaching work. She was significantly involved in various university committees. In 2001 she became the first dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study .

From July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2018, Drew Gilpin Faust was the 28th President of Harvard University to succeed Lawrence Summers . Not only is she the first female president in the university's long history, but also the first since 1672 to fail to graduate from Harvard.

Her research area is the history of the American South, especially the Civil War . For her publication Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War , she received the 1997 Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians , and in 2018 the Kluge Prize from the Library of Congress . Faust is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the American Philosophical Society, and the Society of American Historians. In 2009 she became an honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy .

She is married to the medical historian Charles E. Rosenberg . There are two daughters from the marriage.

Fonts

• This republic of suffering: death and the american civil war. Alfred A. Knopf, New York 2008.
• Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill 1996, ISBN 0-8078-2255-8 .
• Southern Stories: Slaveholders in Peace and War. University of Missouri Press, Columbia 1992, ISBN 0-8262-0865-7 .
• The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South. Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge 1982, ISBN 0-8071-1606-8 .
• James Henry Hammond and the Old South: A Design for Mastery. Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge 1982, ISBN 0-8071-1248-8 .
• A Sacred Circle: The Dilemma of the Intellectual in the Old South, 1840-1860. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 1977, ISBN 0-8122-1229-0 .

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1. ^ Sara Rimer: A 'Rebellious Daughter' to Lead Harvard. nytimes.com, February 12, 2007.
2. ↑ Harvard names Drew G. Faust as its 28th president. ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Harvard University, February 11, 2007. 
3. ↑ Drew Gilpin Faust. Harvard University, accessed February 11, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Members: Catherine Drew Gilpin Faust. Royal Irish Academy, accessed May 6, 2019 . 

Web links

Commons : Drew Gilpin Faust  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• "Harvard names Drew G. Faust as its 28th president" (Harvard University February 11, 2007)
• Profile at Radcliffe College
• Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff: “ The elite is becoming female ”. In: Die Zeit No. 08 of February 15, 2007