Dr Drew Gilpin Faust, President of Harvard University and the Lincoln Professor of History in its Faculty of Arts and Sciences, will speak on Two Wars and the Long Twentieth Century: the United States, 1861–65; Britain 1914–18 in the Senate-House on 19...
Dr Drew Gilpin Faust, President of Harvard University and the Lincoln Professor of History in its Faculty of Arts and Sciences, will speak on Two Wars and the Long Twentieth Century: the United States, 1861–65; Britain 1914–18 in the Senate-House on 19 January 2015.
The Rede lectures are the oldest series of named lectures in the University, first endowed by the executors of Sir Robert Rede in 1524. Previous lecturers have included John Ruskin, Thomas Henry Huxley and CP Snow. More recently, Wen Jiabao (2009) and Harold Varmus (2011) have been honoured with the appointment.
Dr Faust grew up in Virginia, and took her first degree magna cum laude at Bryn Mawr College, followed by a master's degree and then a PhD at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was on the academic staff for 25 years and was Annenberg Professor of History.
In 2001, she was the founding Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, guiding its transformation from a college into an institute for wide-ranging scholarly and creative enterprise with a strong multidisciplinary focus. Dr Faust’s most recent publication, This Republic of Suffering, was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and was named by the New York Times as one of the ten best books of 2008.
Her appointment as Harvard’s 28th President, and the first woman to hold that office, came in 2007. She has been an Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel College since 2008.
The lecture will be given in the Senate-House at 5.30pm. All are welcome and it is not necessary to make reservations. Senior members of the University are requested to wear their gowns.