Faust served as the 28th president of Harvard University from July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2018. Drew Gilpin Faust is the Arthur Kingsley Porter University professor and President Emerita at Harvard University. Her book is This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War. Drew Gilpin Faust is President Emerita of Harvard University and the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor.. As president of Harvard from 2007 to 2018, Faust expanded financial aid to improve access to Harvard College for students of all economic backgrounds and advocated for increased federal funding for scientific research. This was a fantastic book, though sometimes hard to stomach. Her new book is This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War. She was Harvard’s first female president, and the first Harvard president without a Harvard degree. She is the author of " This Republic of … Drew Gilpin Faust is the Arthur Kingsley Porter University professor and President Emerita at Harvard University. The Civil War Soldier and the Art of Dying By DREW GILPIN FAUST MORTALITY DEFINES THE HUMAN CONDITION. Parachute Publishing Page Map The Civil War caused severe upheavals in the lives of millions of Americans. Gilpin Faust is the Arthur Kingsley Porter University professor and President Emerita at Harvard University. Drew Gilpin Faust, the president of Harvard, has written an extraordinary new book about the enormous loss of human life in the Civil War — 620,000 men, North and South. She is the author of " This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War ." in history magna cum laude from Bryn Mawr College in 1968. Image via Library of Congress/Wikimedia Commons. Most Civil War books are about great battles and specific generals. Drew Gilpin Faust is president of Harvard University, where she also holds the Lincoln Professorship in History. Historian Drew Gilpin Faust writes that Civil War deaths — both their number and their manner — transformed America. Faust is the first woman to serve as Harvard president and the university's 28th president overall. “I felt very much that I lived in history,” said Drew Gilpin Faust as she recently described her childhood in an interview for Humanities magazine.A well-known scholar of the antebellum South and the Civil War era and, since 2007, president of Harvard University, Faust had … Drew Gilpin Faust is President Emeritus and the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor. Drew Gilpin Faust is the Arthur Kingsley Porter University professor and President Emerita at Harvard University. A Civil War battle in Petersburg. The tremendous change that swept the United States due to the horrendous number of war dead. She was Harvard’s first female president, and the first Harvard president without a Harvard degree. As president of Harvard, Faust has expanded financial aid to improve access to Harvard College for students of all economic backgrounds and advocated for increased federal funding for scientific research. After four years of unprecedented slaughter, no one would be the same again.