The Boston Globe and the Harvard Crimson are reporting today that Harvard will name civil war historian and Radcliffe Dean Drew Gilpin Faust as President on Sunday. Thanks to Cliopatria for the tip.UPDATE: The New York Times has now picked up the story, noting that "Harvard will be the fourth of the eighth Ivy League universities to name a woman as its president."
Faust's books include: Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War, The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South, Southern Stories: Slaveholders in Peace and War, and The Ideology of Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Antebellum South, 1830-1860 (Faust, ed.).
