Drew Gilpin Faust
Catharine Drew Gilpin Faust is a historian. He was the 28th President of Harvard University. Her spouse is ……
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QUICK FACTS
Born: September 18, 1947
Born Place: New York, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
BIOGRAPHY
Catharine Drew Gilpin Faust (born September 18, 1947) is an American historian and was the 28th President of Harvard University, the first woman to serve in that role. Faust is the former dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; 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.
In 2014, she was ranked by Forbes as the 33rd most powerful woman in the world.
EARLY LIFE
Drew Gilpin was born in New York City and raised in Clarke County, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley. She is the daughter of Catharine Ginna (née Mellick) and McGhee Tyson Gilpin. Her father was a Princeton graduate and breeder of thoroughbred horses. Her paternal great-grandfather, Lawrence Tyson, was a U.S. senator from Tennessee during the 1920s. Faust also has New England ancestry and is a descendant of the Puritan divine Rev. Jonathan Edwards, the third president of Princeton.
EDUCATION
Faust graduated from Concord Academy, Concord, Massachusetts, in 1964. She earned a BA magna cum laude with honors in history from Bryn Mawr College in 1968. She earned an MA in American civilization from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971 and a Ph.D. in 1975, with a dissertation entitled “A Sacred Circle: The Social Role of the Intellectual in the Old South, 1840–1860”.
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