In 2007 Drew Gilpin Faust became the first female president in this university's 371-year history
... A Civil War scholar and respected university 
insider, Faust, 59, ... Faust becomes the first president without a Harvard degree 
since... [DOC] [TLE] Harvard likely to pick first female president - tribunedigital ... [PAR] Harvard University appears ready to name the first female president in its 371-
year history: Drew Gilpin Faust, a historian who runs a research institute at the 
university.