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    Drew Gilpin Faust

    American historian and board member, director at Goldman Sachs

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  1. 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.

  2. Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury A memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America. This Republic of Suffering Chronicles the impact of the Civil War’s enormous death toll on the lives of nineteenth-century Americans. New edition with new introduction forthcoming September 12, 2023. Drew Gilpin Faust, President Emerita of...

  3. Aug 16, 2023 · Kayana Szymczak for The New York Times. As president of Harvard University from 2007 to 2018, Drew Gilpin Faust was the first woman to occupy the highest bully pulpit of American higher education ...

  4. Drew Faust is the former president of Harvard University and a renowned historian of the American Civil War. She is the author of six books, including This Republic of Suffering, and a recipient of many awards and honors.

  5. Apr 30, 2024 · Drew Gilpin Faust (born September 18, 1947, New York, New York, U.S.) is an American educator and historian who was the first female president of Harvard University (2007–18). Gilpin grew up in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, where her parents raised Thoroughbred horses. She graduated from Concord (Massachusetts) Academy in 1964 and received ...

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  6. Aug 22, 2023 · Drew Gilpin Faust is known as a historian, a civil rights activist and the first woman president of Harvard — but she was groomed to become a proper Southern lady. Growing up in Virginia's ...

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  8. Aug 17, 2023 · Drew Gilpin Faust, photographed at Harvard University, was the first woman to become the elite institution’s president. In the memoir “Necessary Trouble,” she tells of her awakening to ...

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