#  Drew Faust, Harvard President Emerita and Lincoln Professor of History, Named a University Professor 

 





December 21, 2018

 

 

 Celebrated historian [Drew Faust](/people/drew-faust), Harvard president *emerita* and Lincoln Professor of History, has been named a University Professor, Harvard’s highest faculty honor.

 Faust’s groundbreaking scholarship has addressed questions central to American life and the human condition. A historian of the American South and the Civil War, she has transformed the understanding of the nation’s most devastating internal conflict, shining new light on how the efforts of those caught up in the crisis and its aftermath reshaped the nation.

 See the [Harvard Gazette's article](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/12/drew-faust-named-harvard-university-professor/) for more info.



 

 

 



 

 

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