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Catharine Drew Gilpin Faust (born September 18, 1947) is an American historian, college administrator and the President of Harvard University. Faust is the first woman to serve as Harvard's president and the university's 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 Harvard's 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''. ==Early life and career== 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 (née Mellick) and McGhee Tyson Gilpin; her father was a Princeton graduate and breeder of thoroughbred horses.〔(Sara Rimer, "A 'Rebellious Daughter' to Lead Harvard" ), ''The New York Times,'' 12 February 2007〕〔 Her paternal great-grandfather, Lawrence Tyson, was a U.S. Senator from Tennessee during the 1920s.〔("Living History, Drew Gilpin Faust" ), ''Harvard Magazine,'' May–June, 2003〕 Faust also has New England ancestry and is a descendant of the Puritan divine Rev. Jonathan Edwards, the third president of Princeton.〔(Martin E. Hollick, "The New England Ancestry of Drew Gilpin Faust, Harvard's 28th President" ), ''American Ancestors'', New England Historic Genealogical Society〕 She graduated from Concord Academy, Concord, Massachusetts, in 1964. She earned her BA from Bryn Mawr College in 1968. She graduated ''magna cum laude'' with honors in history. She attended the University of Pennsylvania for graduate work, earning her MA in 1971 and her Ph.D. in American Civilization in 1975 with a dissertation entitled ''A Sacred Circle: The Social Role of the Intellectual in the Old South, 1840–1860.'' In the same year, she joined the University of Pennsylvania faculty as assistant professor of American civilization. Based on her research and teaching, she rose to Walter Annenberg Professor of History. A specialist in the history of the South in the antebellum period and Civil War, Faust developed new perspectives in intellectual history of the antebellum South and in the changing roles of women during the Civil War. She is the author of six books, including ''Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War'' (1996), for which she won both the Society of American Historians Francis Parkman Prize and the Avery O. Craven Award from the Organization of American Historians in 1997. Her works include ''James Henry Hammond and Old South,'' a biography of James Henry Hammond, Governor of South Carolina from 1842–1844. Faust’s most recent book, ''This Republic of Suffering'' (2008), was a critically acclaimed exploration of how the United States' understanding of death was shaped by the high losses during the Civil War. It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award (see awards below). In 2001, Faust was appointed as the first dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, established after the merger of Radcliffe College with Harvard University.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Drew Gilpin Faust」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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