Catherine Drew Gilpin Faust

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  • Faust was born

  • Earned A.B. from Bryn Mawr College

  • Earned A.M. and Ph.D in American Civilization from University of Pennsylvania

  • Joined Penn faculty as assistant professor of American Civilization, eventually rose to Walter Annenberg Professor of History

  • Published A Sacred Circle: The Dilemma of the Intellectual in the Old South, 1840-1860

    Published A Sacred Circle: The Dilemma of the Intellectual in the Old South, 1840-1860

  • Published The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South and James Henry Hammond and the Old South: A Design for Master

  • Diagnosed with breast cancer

  • Published Southern Stories: Slaveholders in Peace and War

  • Published Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War

  • Won the Society of American Historians Francis Parkman Prize for Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War

  • Appointed first dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, successor to Radcliffe college

  • Named member of "Time 100"

  • Selected as the next Harvard president

  • Appointment as next Harvard president was made official

  • Awarded honorary Doctorate of Human Letters from Bowdoin College

  • Delivered first installation address as president of Harvard

  • Greatly improved financial aid at Harvard

  • Published This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

  • Awarded honorary Doctorate from University of Pennsylvania and honorary Doctor of Humanities from Yale University

  • Received Bancroft Prize from Columbia University for This Republic of Suffering, included in Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women