Drew Gilpin Faust AKA Catharine Drew Gilpin Faust Born: 18-Sep-1947 Birthplace: New York City [1]
Gender: Female Religion: Anglican/Episcopalian Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Educator Nationality: United States Executive summary: President of Harvard University [1] Grew up in Clarke County, VA.
Father: McGhee Tyson Gilpin (horse breeder) Mother: Catharine Mellick (socialite) Brother: M. Tyson Gilpin Jr. (attorney) Brother: (two others) Husband: Stephen Faust (div. 1976) Husband: Charles Rosenberg (m. 1980, historian, one daughter) Daughter: Jessica (b. 1982) Daughter: Leah (stepdaughter, academic)
High School: Concord Academy, Concord, MA University: BA History, Bryn Mawr College (1968) University: MA American Civilization, University of Pennsylvania (1971) University: PhD American Civilization, University of Pennsylvania (1975) Professor: History, University of Pennsylvania (1976-2001) Administrator: Dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (2001-07) Professor: History, Harvard University (2007-) Administrator: President, Harvard University (2007-) Administrator: Trustee, Bryn Mawr College
Member of the Board of Staples (2012-)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1994 American Historical Association Vice President (past) American Philosophical Society 2004 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Trustee Guggenheim Foundation Educational Advisory Board John Kerry for President Kerry Victory 2004 National Humanities Center Trustee Organization of American Historians Executive Board Science Debate 2008 Society of American Historians 1993 Southern Historical Association President (past)
4-H Club Risk Factors: Breast Cancer
Author of books:
A Sacred Circle: The Dilemma of the Intellectual in the Old South, 1840-1860 (1977) James Henry Hammond and the Old South: A Design for Mastery (1982) The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South (1982) Southern Stories: Slaveholders in Peace and War (1992) Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (1996, history) This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (2008, history)
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