Biography
Catharine Drew Gilpin Faust (born September 18, 1947) is an American historian who served as the 28th president of Harvard University, the first woman in that role. 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. Faust is also the founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She has been ranked among the world's most powerful women by Forbes, including as the 33rd most powerful in 2014.
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Ivory Tower (2014)
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Self - Harvard University, President Emeritus
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
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GenderFemale
Birthday1947-09-18 (77 years old)
Birth NameCatharine Drew Gilpin
SpouseCharles E. Rosenberg
FatherMcGhee Tyson Gilpin
MotherCatharine Ginna Gilpin
RelativesJonathan Edwards, Lawrence Tyson
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
ResidencesClarke County · Cambridge, United States of America
Awardshonorary doctorate from Princeton University, Virginia Women in History, Jefferson Lecture, Francis Parkman Prize, American History Book Prize, Radcliffe Medal, honorary doctor of the University of Miami, honorary doctor of Bowdoin College, honorary doctor of the Peking University, honorary doctor of the Yale University, honorary doctor of the University of Pennsylvania, Guggenheim Fellowship, Bancroft Prize, Time 100
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