Iam a historian at Harvard University. I have authored five books, including Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War for which I won the Francis Parkman Prize in 1997. I have also served on the Pulitzer Prize history jury. I am the first woman president in the 371-year-old history of Harvard University. Who am I?

ANswer to last week’s question: k.g. balakrishnan