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Catharine Drew Gilpin Faust (born September 18 1947) is an American historian, college administrator and the first female president of Harvard University. Faust, the former Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, is also Harvard's first president since 1672 without an undergraduate or graduate degree from Harvard.

Early life and career

Faust was born in New York City and raised in Clarke County, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley.

Honors

  • Faust was named a member of the Time 100 for 2007.
  • Faust was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Human Letters from Bowdoin College in May 2007.
  • Faust was awarded an honorary Doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in May 2008.

Selected works

  • This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Knopf, 2008) ISBN 978-0375404047
  • Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (University of North Carolina Press, 1996) ISBN 978-0807855737
  • Southern Stories: Slaveholders in Peace and War (University of Missouri Press, 1992) ISBN 978-0826209757
  • The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South (Louisiana State University Press, 1982) ISBN 978-0807116067
  • James Henry Hammond and the Old South: A Design for Mastery (Louisiana State University Press, 1982) ISBN 978-0807112489
  • A Sacred Circle: The Dilemma of the Intellectual in the Old South, 1840-1860 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1977) ISBN 978-0812212297Further Information

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