Drew Gilpin Faust

Drew Gilpin Faust is an American historian of the Civil War and the nineteenth-century South who served as Harvard University’s president from 2007 to 2018.

Harvard University: A private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 1636. Faust led Harvard as its president from 2007 to 2018.
American Civil War: A war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865 between the Union and the Confederacy. The war and its aftermath anchor much of Faust’s historical writing.
This Republic of Suffering: Drew Gilpin Faust’s 2008 book on death, mourning, and the transformation of American society during the Civil War. It presents her account of how mass death changed the nation’s language and practices.
Harvard University presidency: The senior executive office responsible for leading Harvard University’s academic and institutional affairs. Faust’s tenure brought her historical perspective to university-wide leadership.
James Henry Hammond: A South Carolina politician and planter who defended slavery and served as governor and U.S. senator. Faust’s first book examined Hammond’s political and slaveholding world.
American South: A region of the United States shaped by distinctive histories of slavery, secession, and racial hierarchy. Faust studies the region’s nineteenth-century society and political transformation.
Mothers of Invention: Drew Gilpin Faust’s 1996 study of Southern white women during the American Civil War. The book shows her use of women’s experiences to interpret wartime social change.
Harvard University's response to COVID-19: Harvard University’s policies and institutional decisions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Faust’s 2020 reflections addressed how universities should respond to a crisis after her presidency.
Catherine Clinton: An American historian whose work includes studies of Southern women and the Civil War. Clinton and Faust helped shape scholarship on women in the nineteenth-century South.
Slavery in the United States: A system of racialized chattel bondage that existed in the United States until its abolition in 1865. Slavery’s human and political consequences are central to Faust’s Civil War scholarship.

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