Drew Faust
Drew Gilpin Faust grew up in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley and received her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College, magna cum laude and her M.A. and Ph.D from the University of Pennsylvania. She served on the faculties of Penn and Harvard for nearly a half century and was President of Harvard from 2007 to 2018. She is author of seven books, including National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War. Her most recent book is a memoir, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury (2023). In 2018 Faust was awarded the John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity.
Drew Gilpin Faust served as the 28th president of Harvard University from July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2018. She was Harvard’s first female president.
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