Faust

Drew Gilpin Faust

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  • Birth

    Birthplace: New York, New York

  • Bachelor's from Concord University

    received her bachelor’s degree from Bryn Mawr with honors in history

  • Master’s degree from University of Pennsylvania

    Degree in American Civilization

  • Doctoral degree from Pennsylvania

    Degree in American Civilization

  • Married the historian Charles Rosenberg

  • Awarded distinguished teaching at the University of Pennsylvania

  • Pulitzer Prize history jury

  • Pulitzer Prize history jury

  • Elected to the Society of American Historians

  • Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994

  • Awarded distinguished teaching at the University of Pennsylvania

  • Won the Francis Parkman Prize with the book Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War

  • Founding Dean of Radcliffe

    Founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

  • Pulitzer Prize history jury

  • Elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2004

  • 28th President of Harvard

  • Realeased her newest book ,This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War