* 18.9.1947 New York City

* Gilpin

Zij was President van de Harvard University

Zij groeide op in Clarke County, VA.

Zij was de dochter van McGhee Tyson Gilpin (paardenfokker)

Zij huwde met Stephen Faust (gescheideni 1976). Daarna met Charles Rosenberg (in 1980, historicus waarmede een dochter Jessica (* 1982)
en een stiefdochter  Leah

Opleiding: High School: Concord Academy, Concord, MA; University: BA History, Bryn Mawr College (1968) Gilpin University: MA American Civilization, University of Pennsylvania (1971) University: PhD American Civilization, University of Pennsylvania (1975)

Loopbaan: Professor: History, University of Pennsylvania (1976-2001) Administrator: Dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (2001-07) Professor: History, Harvard University (2007-) Administrator: President, Harvard University (2007-)  Administrator: Trustee, Bryn Mawr College American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1994 American Historical Association Vice President (past) American Philosophical Society 2004  Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Trustee Guggenheim Foundation Educational Advisory Board  John Kerry for President Kerry Victory 2004 National Humanities Center Trustee  Organization of American Historians Executive Board Society of American Historians 1993 Southern Historical Association President (past)  4-H Club.

Werken: A Sacred Circle: The Dilemma of the Intellectual in the Old South, 1840-1860 (1977) James Henry Hammond and the Old South: A Design for Mastery (1982) The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South (1982) Southern Stories: Slaveholders in Peace and War (1992) Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (1996, history) This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (2008, history)