UNIVERSITY	FAS	COLLEGE	GSAS
Curricular Committees - Graduate Degree Programs 2009-10 American Civilization, Higher Degrees in the History of—...oversees the graduate program leading to the Ph.D. degree in its 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), David Armitage, Sven Beckert, Robin Bernstein, Steven Biel, Ann Braude, Lisa T. Brooks, Lawrence Buell, Stephen Burt, Daniel Carpenter, Glenda Carpio, Joyce Elizabeth Chaplin, Lizabeth Cohen, Nancy Cott, Christine Desan, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Claudia D. Goldin (on leave spring term), R. Marie Griffith, David Hempton, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Morton Jay Horwitz, Andrew Jewett (on leave 2009-10), Walter Johnson, Robin E. Kelsey, Randall Kennedy, Alexander Keyssar, James T. Kloppenberg, Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Jill Lepore, Lisa M. McGirr, Louis Menand (on leave fall term), Charles Ogletree, Carol J. Oja, Julie Reuben, Jennifer Roberts, Leigh Eric Schmidt, Marc Shell, Werner Sollors, Doris Sommer (on leave 2009-10), Rachel St. John, Jason Stevens, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Roberto Mangabiera Unger, Joanne Van Der Woude. 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. K. Michael Hays (co-chair), Antoine Picon (co-chair), Eve Blau, Giuliana Bruno, Lizabeth Cohen, Susan Saltzman Fainstein, Peter L. Galison (on leave 2009-10), Sheila Jasanoff, Jerold S. Kayden (on leave 2009-10), Sanford Kwinter, Michèle Lamont, Neil Levine, Alina A. Payne, A. Hashim Sarkis, Christine Smith. 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, Markus Meister, Aravinthan Samuel, Eugene I. Shakhnovich, Gerhard Wagner, Xiaowei Zhuang (on leave 2009-10) 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 its 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. (2009-2010 membership information is not yet available. The following are the 2008-2009 members.) Mihir Desai (chair), George P. Baker III, Carliss Baldwin, John Y. Campbell (on leave 2008-2009), Amy Edmondson, Lee O. Fleming, Jerry R. Green, J. Richard Hackman, Josh Lerner, Peter V. Marsden (on leave fall term), Michael B. McElroy, Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Ariel Pakes, David C. Parkes (on leave 2008-2009), Jeffrey Polzer, Alvin E. Roth, Vicki Sato, David Scharfstein, Toby Stuart, Stefan H. Thomke, Michael Tushman, Luis Viceira, Christopher Winship (on leave spring term), Woodward Yang, 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 on leave 2009-10), Mihir Desai (ex officio), Josh Lerner, Ariel Pakes, Alvin E. Roth, David Scharfstein, Luis Viceira, Dennis Yao. 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. Peter V. Marsden (chair), Mihir Desai (ex officio), Amy Edmondson, Ranjay Gulati, J. Richard Hackman, Jeffrey Polzer, Toby Stuart, Christopher Winship (on leave spring term). Science, 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), Carliss Baldwin, Mihir Desai (ex officio), Lee O. Fleming, Michael B. McElroy, Venkatesh Narayanamurti, David C. Parkes, Vicki Sato. Chemical Biology, Degree of Doctor of Philosophy In Jon Clardy (co-chair), Ulrike Eggert, Daniel Kahne, David R. Liu (co-chair), Alan Saghatelian, Gregory L. Verdine, 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 on leave fall term), Eugene I. Shakhnovich (acting chair), Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Adam Cohen, John M. Doyle, Roy G. Gordon, Mikhail Lukin (on leave spring term), David R. Nelson (on leave fall term), Xiaoliang Sunney Xie, Xiaowei Zhuang (on leave 2009-10). 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), Malcolm Whitman (vice chair), Arkhat Abzhanov, Roland Baron, Marianna Bei, Patricia D'Amore, Beate Lanske, Andrew Lassar, Richard Maas, David Mooney, Matthew Warman, Hans-Peter Weber. Film and Visual Studies, Higher Degrees In— David Rodowick (chair on leave 2009-2010), Justin McCabe Weir (acting chair), Giuliana Bruno, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Eileen Cheng-yin Chow, Tom C. Conley, Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Eric Rentschler, Amie Siegel. 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), John Ayanian, Katherine Baicker, Robert Blendon, David Bloom, Daniel Carpenter, Amitabh Chandra, Michael Chernew, Nicholas Christakis (on leave spring term), Glenn I. Coehn, David M. Cutler, Norman Daniels, Amy Edmondson, Arnold Epstein, Majid Ezzati, Erica Field (on leave fall term), Richard G. Frank, G. Scott Gazelle, Susanne Goldie, David Grabowski, James K. Hammitt, Robert Huckman, Haiden Huskamp, Guido Imbens, Ashish Jha, Nancy Kane, Jane Kim, Gary King, Michael Kremer, Bruce Landon, Peter V. Marsden, Marie McCormick, Thomas McGuire, Barbara McNeil, John McWilliams, Michelle Mello, Carl N. Morris, Sharon-Lise Normand, Gary Pisano, Meredith Rosenthal, Donald B. Rubin, Joshua Salomon, Stephen Soumerai, David Stevenson, B. Katherine Swartz, Milton Weinstein, Alan Zaslavsky, 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, Carter J. Eckert, Andrew D. Gordon, Henrietta Harrison, Sun Joo Kim, William C. Kirby, Shigehisa Kuriyama, Ian Miller, Michael J. Puett, Michael Szonyi, Hue-Tam Ho Tai. 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, Cemal Kafadar, C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, Terry Martin, Michael J. Puett, David J. Roxburgh, Wei-ming Tu (on leave fall term), Michael Witzel, Richard K. Wolf. 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. David Golan (chair), Richard Born, David Cardozo (ex officio), Michael C. Carroll, Connie Cepko, Susan M. Dymecki, Dana Gabuzda, Stephen C. Harrison, Peter Howley, David Knipe, Michael Starnbach, Shannon Turley, David Van Vactor, Christopher T. Walsh, and Rachel Wilson 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. Cemal Kafadar (chair), Khaled El-Rouayheb, Mark Elliot, Bradley S. Epps, Luis Manuel Girón-Negrón, Andrew D. Gordon, Michael Herzfeld, Baber Johansen, Salmaan Keshavjee, Arthur M. Kleinman, Mohsen Mostafavi, Gülru Necipoglu-Kafadar, Edwin Roger Owen, Michael J. Puett, Dani Rodrik, Stephen Peter Rosen, Monica Toft, Richard K. Wolf. 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) (on leave 2008-2009), Kenneth A. Shepsle (acting chair), Christopher Avery, Daniel Carpenter, Suzanne Cooper, Jeffry Frieden, Edward L. Glaeser, Elhanan Helpman, Michael J. Hiscox, William Hogan, Daniel Hojman, Nolan Miller, Sendhil Mullainathan, Joseph P. Newhouse, D. H. Perkins, John Ramseyer, Dani Rodrik, Beth Simmons, Robert Stavins, Dennis Thompson, 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. (2009-2010 membership information is not yet available. The following are the 2008-2009 members.) James Hutchinson Ware (chair), Michael Grusby, David Harrington, Lester Kobzik, Xiao-Li Meng, Carl N. Morris, Bjorn R. Olsen, Frank Sacks, Marianne Wessling-Resnick, Dyann F. Wirth. 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 is primarily responsible for seeing its Ph.D. program, including monitoring requirements and standards for the degree and standards for admission. Marianne Wessling-Resnick (chair),,Michael Grusby (ex officio), Lester Kobzik, Bjorn R. Olsen, Frank Sacks, 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 is primarily responsible for seeing its Ph.D. program, including monitoring requirements and standards for the degree and standards for admission. (2009-2010 membership information is not yet available. The following are the 2008-2009 members.) Louise Ryan (chair), David Harrington, Xiao-Li Meng, Carl N. Morris, James Hutchinson Ware (ex officio). 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 (on leave fall term), Arthur Applbaum (on leave 2009-10), Mary Jo Bane, Iris Bohnet, George Borjas, Hannah Riley Bowles, William C. Clark, Jeffrey Frankel, Ricardo Hausmann, William Hogan, Asim Ijaz Khwaja, Jennifer Lerner. Dan Levy, Erzo Luttmer, Brigitte Madrian, Erich Muehlegger, Rohini Pande, Robert D. Putnam, Monica Toft, Stephen Martin Walt, 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. Xiaofei Tian (chair), Henrietta Harrison, Sun Joo Kim, Shigehisa Kuriyama, Yukio Lippit, Michael Szonyi, Karen Thornber (on leave 2009-10), Martin K. Whyte (on leave fall term). 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 on leave 2009-10), Terry Martin (acting chair), Patricia Rowe Chaput, Grzegorz Ekiert (on leave 2009-10), Alison Frank, George G. Grabowicz, John E. Malmstad, Kelly O'Neill-Uzgiris, Serhii Plokhii, James R. Russell, Stephanie Sandler, William Mills Todd (on leave 2009-10), Justin McCabe Weir. 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 Hochschild (on leave fall term), Christopher Jencks, Theda Skocpol, William J. Wilson. Systems Biology, Degree of Doctor of Philosophy In Pamela Silver (chair), Michael P. Brenner, Marc Kirschner, Tim Mitchison, Erin O'Shea (on leave 2009-10).