Drew g faust biography
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Drew Gilpin Faust
American historian and college administrator
Catharine Drew Gilpin Faust (born September 18, 1947)[1] is an American historian who served as the 28th president of Harvard University, the first woman in that role.[2] She was Harvard's first president since 1672 without an undergraduate or graduate degree from Harvard and the first to have been raised in the South.[3][4] Faust is also the founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.[1] She has been ranked among the world's most powerful women by Forbes, including as the 33rd most powerful in 2014.[5]
Early life and education
Drew Gilpin was born in New York City[6] and raised in Clarke County, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley.[1] She is the daughter of Catharine Ginna (née Mellick) and McGhee Tyson Gilpin.
Her father was a Princeton graduate and bred thoroughbred horses, among other business ventures.[1&