Drew Gilpin Faust
Catharine Drew Gilpin Faust is an American historian, college administrator and the President of Harvard University. Faust is the first woman to serve as Harvards president and the universitys 28th president overall. Faust is the fifth woman to serve as president of an Ivy League university and is the former dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Faust is Harvards first president since 1672 without an undergraduate or graduate degree from Harvard, and the first to have been brought up in the South. In 2014, she was ranked as the 33rd most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.
She was born Catharine Drew Gilpin in New York City and raised in Clarke County, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley. She is the daughter of Catharine Ginna and McGhee Tyson Gilpin her father was a Princeton graduate and breeder of thoroughbred horses. Her paternal greatgrandfather, Lawrence Tyson, was a U.S. Senator from Tennessee during the 1920s. Faust also has New England ancestry and is a descendant of the Puritan divine Rev. Jonathan Edwards, the third president of Princeton.
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