Office of the Secretary of the FAS

American Civilization, Higher Degrees in the History of—...oversees the graduate program leading to the Ph.D. degree in it's field by recommending courses, both required and elective, selecting candidates for the program and monitoring their progress, and by providing reading and research supervision and mentoring to students on an individual level.

John Stauffer (chair - on leave fall term ), Sven Beckert, Ann Braude, Lisa T. Brooks (on leave fall term), Lawrence Buell, Joyce Chaplin, Lizabeth Cohen (on leave fall term), Nancy Cott, Margaret Crawford (on leave 2007-2008), Christine Desan, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (on leave spring term), David D. Hall, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Morton Jay Horwitz (on leave spring term ), Walter Johnson (on leave fall term), Robin E. Kelsey, Alexander Keyssar, James T. Kloppenberg, Jill Lepore (on leave fall term), Malinda Maynor Lowery, Louis Menand (on leave fall term), Susan O'Donovan, Carol J. Oja, Julie Reuben, Jennifer Roberts (on leave 2007-2008), Marc Shell, Werner Sollors (on leave spring term), Doris Sommer, Rachel St. John (on leave fall term), Jason Stevens (on leave 2007-2008), Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (on leave spring term), and Robert Mangabiera Unger.

Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning, Degree of Doctor of Philosophy In—...is a joint committee with members from both the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Faculty of Design, and is primarily responsible for administering the doctoral program for students wishing to teach or continue advanced research in these fields. The committee reviews applications for admissions, provides counseling, administers examinations, supervises and reviews the thesis work of students within the program, and develops curricula and course offerings.

Antoine Picon (chair), Eve Blau, Svetlana Boym (on leave 2007-2008), Giuliana Bruno, Lizabeth Cohen (on leave fall term), Margaret Crawford (on leave 2007-2008), Susan Fainstein, Peter L. Galison, K. Michael Hays, Jerold Kayden, Neil Levine (on leave 2007-2008), Alina A. Payne, Hashim Sarkis, and Christine Smith (on leave fall term).

Biophysics, Higher Degrees In—... is comprised of senior members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine, and whose responsibility it is to administer the graduate program for the Ph.D. in Biophysics.

James M. Hogle (chair), Howard C. Berg, Stephen Blacklow, George Church, Stephen C. Harrison, David R. Liu (on leave 2007-2008), Markus Meister, Aravinthan Samuel, Eugene I. Shakhnovich, Gerhard Wagner, and Xiaowei Zhuang.

Business Studies, Higher Degrees In—...is a committee consisting of members from both the Harvard Business School and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and it's purpose is to supervise joint degrees between these two schools. Four separate subcommittees administer each specific Ph.D. degree in the fields of Business Economics, Decision Sciences, Information Technology and Management, and Organizational Behavior.

Amy Edmondson (chair), Teresa Amabile, George P. Baker, III (on leave 2007-2008), Carliss Baldwin, Mahzarin Banaji (on leave 2007-2008), John Y. Campbell, Lee O. Fleming, Jerry R. Green, Josh Lerner, Peter V. Marsden, Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Nitin Nohria, Ariel Pakes, David C. Parkes, Jeffrey Polzer, Jan W. Rivkin, Alvin E. Roth (on leave fall term), David Scharfstein, Margo I. Seltzer, Michael D. Smith, Stefan H. Thomke, Luis Viceira, Christopher Winship, Woodward Yang, and Dennis Yao.

Business Economics, Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in.—... is a constituent of the Standing Committee on Higher Degrees in Business Studies which administers the degree program, establishes requirements and standards for admission and performance, counsels students on their plans and progress, and certifies students who have completed all requirements to the Governing Boards in order to receive their degree.

Jerry R. Green (chair), Amy Edmondson (ex officio), George P. Baker, III (on leave 2007-2008), John Y. Campbell, Josh Lerner, Ariel Pakes, Alvin E. Roth, David Scharfstein, Luis Viceira, and Dennis Yao.

Information Technology and Management, Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in.—..a constituent of the Standing Committee on Higher Degrees in Business Studies, this committee is authorized to admit and recommend candidates for the Ph.D. in Information Technology and Management.

Stefan H. Thomke (co-chair), Woodward Yang (co-chair), Amy Edmondson (ex officio), Carliss Baldwin, Lee O. Fleming, Venkatesh Narayanamurti, David C. Parkes, Jan W. Rivkin, Margo I. Seltzer, and Michael D. Smith.

Organizational Behavior, Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in.—... is a constituent of the Standing Committee on Higher Degrees in Business Studies responsible admitting new students to, and administering the joint doctoral program in Organizational Behavior between the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School of Business Administration.

(2007-2008 membership information is not yet available. The following are the 2006-2007 members.) Peter V. Marsden (Chair), Amy Edmondson (ex officio), Teresa Amabile, Mahzarin Banaji, Nitin Nohria, Jeffrey Polzer, and Christopher Winship.

Chemical Biology, Degree of Doctor of Philosophy In

Jon Clardy (co-chair), David R. Liu (co-chair) (on leave 2007-2008), Daniel Kahne, Gregory Verdine, and Suzanne Walker.

Chemical Physics, Degree of Doctor of Philosophy In—...provides an advanced program of study and research leading to the Ph.D. in the joint areas of physics and chemistry to students with an undergraduate degree in either discipline.

Eric J. Heller (chair), Alan Aspuru-Guzik, John M. Doyle, Roy G. Gordon, Mikhail Lukin, Eugene I. Shakhnovich, Xiaoliang Sunney Xie (on leave fall term), and Xiaowei Zhuang.

Dental Medicine, Higher Degrees In—...is comprised of members from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, the Harvard Medical School, and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and it administers the Biological Sciences in Dental Medicine Program, which offers advanced study in dental medicine leading to a Ph.D. degree.

Bjorn R. Olsen (chair), John D. Bartlett, Joyce Bischoff, Paticia D'Amore, Floyd Dewhirst, Daniel Finley, David Fisher, James Hanken, Peter Hauschka, Martin Hemler, Randall King, Michael Klagsbrun, Henry Kronenberg, Beate Lanske, Andrew Lassar, Michael Levin, Yefu Li, Yi-Ping Li, Henry Margolis, Bruce Paster, Vicki Rosen, Charles Serhan, Philip Stashenko, Kevin Struhl, Martin Taubman, and Malcolm Whitman.

Health Policy, Degree of Doctor of Philosphy In—...is primarily responsible for administering the Ph.D. Program in Health Policy, and its membership is drawn from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Kennedy School of Government, the Medical School, and the School of Public Health.

Joseph P. Newhouse (chair), Alyce Adams, Katherine Baicker, Robert Blendon, David Bloom, Allan M. Brandt (on leave 2007-2008), Daniel Carpenter (on leave 2007-2008), Amitabh Chandra, Michael Chernew, Nicholas Christakis, Paul D. Cleary, David M. Cutler, Norman Daniels, Amy Edmondson, Arnold Epstein, Erica Field, Richard G. Frank, G. Scott Gazelle, Susanne Goldie, David Grabowski, James Hammit, Robert Huckman, Haiden Huskamp, Nancy Kane, Gary King, Michael Kremer, Bruce Landon, Peter V. Marsden, Marie McCormick, Thomas McGuire, Barbara McNeil, Nolan H. Miller, Carl N. Morris, Sharon-Lise Normand, Gary Pisano, Lisa Prosser, Meredith Rosenthal, Donald B. Rubin, Joshua Salomon, Stephen Soumerai, David Stevenson, B. Katherine Swartz, Milton Weinstein, Alan Zaslavsky, and Richard Zeckhauser.

History and East Asian Language, Degree of Doctor of Philosophy In—...is comprised of members from both the Departments of History and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and it primarily coordinates communication between students, faculty and administration, coordinates placement efforts for current and former students, maintains records and assists students in finding outside fellowships. It does not deal with questions of appointments, funding teaching fellows, or course offerings.

Mark Elliott (chair), Peter Bol, Harold Bolitho, Carter J. Eckert, Andrew D. Gordon (on leave fall term), Henrietta Harrison, William C. Kirby (on leave fall term), Shigehisa Kuriyama, Michael J. Puett, and Hue-Tam Ho Tai (on leave spring term).

Inner Asian and Altaic Studies—...is designed to coordinate all Inner Asian studies, ancient and modern, as well as instruction in the Turkic, Mongolian, and Tunguz languages and linguistics.

Leonard W.J. van der Kuijp (chair), Mark Elliott, Janet Gyatso (on leave 2007-2008), Cemal Kafadar, C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, Terry Martin (on leave 2007-2008), Michael J. Puett, David J. Roxburgh, John Schoeberlein, Wei-ming Tu, and Michael Witzel.

Medical Sciences, Higher Degrees In—...retains members from both the Harvard Medical School and the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, and primarily serves as an executive decision-making body by discussing and approving policy changes or issues of great importance within the Division of Medical Sciences.

Thomas McCoy Roberts (chair), Thomas O. Fox (ex officio), Nancy C. Andrews, Michael C. Carroll, Susan M. Dymecki, Raymond L. Erikson, Dana Gabuzda, Edward E. Harlow, Stephen C. Harrison, Peter Howley, David Knipe, Rosalind Anne Segal, Michael Starnbach, Shannon Turley, David Van Vactor, Christopher T. Walsh, and Gary Yellen.

Middle Eastern Studies—...oversees the A.M. regional studies program and the joint Ph.D. program in Middle Eastern Studies and History, Anthropology, Fine Arts, and Economics.

Steven C. Caton (chair), Leila Ahmed, Ali S. A. Asani, Sugata Bose, Marwa Elshakry (on leave spring term), Mary-Jo Delvecchio Good, William E. Granara, Engseng Ho, Miri Kubovy, Edward Roger Owen, David J. Roxburgh, and A. Hashim Sarkis.

Political Economy and Government, Higher Degrees In—...administers the Ph.D. program for students whose breadth of academic interests is not well served by doctoral studies confined to either economics or political science. Course work includes an integrated program of economic theory, political theory, quantitative methods, and two additional fields selected from economics and political science.

Torben Iversen (chair), Christopher Avery (on leave spring term), Robert H. Bates (on leave spring term), Daniel Carpenter (on leave 2007-08), Suzanne Cooper, Jeffry Frieden, Edward L. Glaeser, Elhanan Helpman, Michael J. Hiscox, William Hogan, Nolan Miller, Joseph P. Newhouse, Dwight H. Perkins, John Ramseyer, Dani Rodrik, Kenneth A. Shepsle, Beth Simmons, Robert Stavins, Dennis F. Thompson (on leave fall term), and Richard Zeckhauser.

Public Health Sciences, Higher Degrees In—...has the general responsibility of overseeing the existing PhD degree programs in biological sciences and biostatistics and developing new PhD programs in other important domains of public health. The committee works with the Subcommittee on the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Biological Sciences and the Subcommittee on the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Biostatistics to make policy decisions and ensure the continuing strengths of those programs.

James Hutchinson Ware (chair), Bruce Demple, Thomas O. Fox, Laurie Glimcher, Michael Grusby, J. Woodland Hastings (on leave spring term), Stephen W. Lagakos, Nan Laird, Xiao-Li Meng, Carl N. Morris, and Louise Ryan.

Doctor of Philosophy in Biological Sciences in Public Health.—...is a constituent of the Standing Committee on Higher Degrees in Public Health Sciences, staffed by members from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Medical School, and the School of Public Health. It's is primarily responsible for seeing its Ph.D. program, including monitoring requirements and standards for the degree and standards for admission.

Michael Grusby (chair), James Hutchinson Ware (ex officio), Bruce Demple, Douglas Dockery, Raymond L. Erikson, Thomas O. Fox, Laurie Glimcher, J. Woodland Hastings (on leave spring term), Bjorn R. Olsen, Walter Willett, and Dyann F. Wirth.

Doctor of Philosophy in Biostatistics.—...is a constituent of the Standing Committee on Higher Degrees in Public Health Sciences, staffed by members from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Medical School, and the School of Public Health. It's is primarily responsible for seeing its Ph.D. program, including monitoring requirements and standards for the degree and standards for admission.

Louise Ryan (chair), James Hutchinson Ware (ex officio), Nan Laird, Xiao-Li Meng, and Carl N. Morris.

Public Policy—...includes representatives from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as well as other schools within the University appropriate to the requisite breadth of the program, and the concentration itself is designed to provide a multidisciplinary introduction to current problems of the environment.

Robert Stavins (chair), Alberto Abadie, Arthur Applebaum, Iris Bohnet, William C. Clark, Pepper D. Culpepper, Susan Dynarski, David Ellwood, Jeffry Frankel, José A. Gómez-Ibañez, Ricardo Hausmann, Sheila Jasanoff, Christopher Jencks, David C. King, David Lazer, Jennifer Lerner, Jeffrey Liebman, Mark Moore, Erich Muehlegger, Rohini Pande, Dani Rodrik, Anthony Saich, Monica Toft, and Richard Zeckhauser.

Regional Studies—East Asia, A.M. Degree In—...aims to make the student broadly conversant with the societies of East Asia, and also to give him or her a sound knowledge of one of the languages of the area by directing the A.M. program including admissions, advising, fellowships and degrees.

David Wang (chair), Heniretta Harrison, Sun Joo Kim, Shigehisa Kuriyama, Yukio Lippit, Roderick MacFarquhar (on leave fall term), David R. McCann (on leave spring term), Karen Thornber, Xiaofei Tian (on leave 2007-2008), and Rubie S. Watson.

Regional Studies —Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia, A.M. Degree In—...was established to oversee the two-year interdisciplinary program leading to the Master of Arts Degree. The program aims to provide students with a firm grounding in the history, culture, language, politics, and economics of Russia, and of other countries of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

Timothy J. Colton (chair), Julie A. Buckler, Patricia Rowe Chaput, Grzegorz Ekiert, Alison Frank (on leave fall term), George G. Grabowicz (on leave spring term), John E. Malmstad, Terry Martin (on leave 2007-2008), Kelly O'Neill, Serge Plokhii, James R. Russell, Stephanie Sandler (on leave 2007-2008), and William Mills Todd, III.

Social Policy, Higher Degrees In—...is designed to admit and recommend candidates for advanced degrees in Government and Social Policy, and Sociology and Social Policy, providing these doctoral students with comprehensive training in either Government or Sociology, with a special concentration in Social Policy.

Bruce Western (chair), Kathryn Edin, Jennifer L. Hochschild, Christopher Jencks, Jeffrey Liebman,William J. Wilson, and Christopher Winship.

Systems Biology, Degree of Doctor of Philosophy In

Pamela Silver (chair), Michael P. Brenner, Martha Bulyk, Lewis Cantley, George Church, Catherine Dulac, Walter Fontana, Melissa Franklin, Jeremy Gunawardena, Marc Kirschner, Roy Kishony, Galit Lahav, Eric Lander, Richard Losick, Gavin Macbeath, Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan, Christopher Marx, Tim Mitchison, Vamsi Mootha, Andrew W. Murray, Radhika Nagpal, Martin Nowak (on leave fall term), Erin O'Shea, Kevin Parker, Johan Paulsson, Tom Rapoport, Aviv Regev, Frederick Roth, Alan Saghatelian, Alexander Schier, Brian Seed, Jagesh Shah, William Shih, Peter Sorger, Antoine Van Oijin, David A. Weitz, Xiaoliang Sunney Xie (on leave fall term), and Xiaowei Zhuang.