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Indeed, many scholars who have known Faust in a professional context praised her scholarship and intellectual engagement with work. John C. Inscoe, a professor of history at the University of Georgia and the secretary-treasurer of the Southern Historical Association (where Faust once served as president), says that Faust has “more than proven herself as a scholar and historian.” Inscoe also commented on Faust’s deft leadership of the Radcliffe Institute, where the intellectual and creative environment that Faust fosters keeps visiting scholars happy. “They all come back singing...
Students in the Adams House dining hall can ignore the noise of people eating and remind themselves of jazz and blues by looking at the newest painting on the wall. A portrait of music scholar Eileen Jackson Southern was unveiled yesterday night in an event sponsored by the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations and the Association of Black Harvard Women (ABHW). In 1976, Southern became the first black woman to receive tenure at Harvard. She held a joint appointment in the Music Department and in the Afro-American Studies Department, which she chaired from 1975 to 1979. Knafel...
...never changed it. I’m a southern child—I was to be called Drew. That was the understanding. There are lots of women in the South who get these male names. My father thought I should get a name that honored my mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, all of whom were named Catharine. So Catharine was put in front of my name Drew. I was never called Catharine; I was always called Drew. It was just a first name that I never used...
Lynn Hunt, a professor of history at UCLA and a former colleague of Faust at Penn, said Faust’s Southern upbringing shaped her sense of diplomacy...
...clearly one of the most distinguished historians in the country,” Hahn says. Her 1982 biography of a South Carolina plantation owner and senator, “James Henry Hammond and the Old South: A Design for Mastery,” won the Southern Historical Association’s prize for the year’s best book. And “Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War,” her study of 500 white women’s wartime letters, won the Francis Parkman Prize, awarded to the best...