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African Studies—This Committee is a multidisciplinary group of scholars primarily concerned with the University's planned development of African Studies as a whole by coordinating the discipline's teaching and research, sponsoring special events to advance knowledge and understanding of the African peoples, and by offering summer grants for various levels of research in Africa.

Jacob Olupona (chair), Rawi Abdelal, Leila Ahmed, Emmanuel K. Akyeampong, Ali S. A. Asani, Robert H. Bates (on leave spring term), Suzanne Blier, Rita Breen (executive officer), Felton James Earls, III, Caroline M. Elkins, Majid Ezzati (on leave 2007-2008), Wafaie Fawzi, Deborah Foster, Duana Fullwiley, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (on leave spring term), Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (ex officio), Allan G. Hill, Nahomi Ichino (on leave fall term), Francis Abiola Irele, Biodun Jeyifo, Matthew Jukes, Calestous Juma, Michael Kremer, Harry S. Martin, III, J. Lorand Matory, Jens Meierhenrich, Ingrid Monson, John Mugane, Pauline E. Peters, Matthias Schündeln (on leave 2007-2008), Kay K. Shelemay (on leave fall term), Debora Spar, Lucie E. White, and Richard K. Wolf.

Archaeology—...is primarily responsible for coordinating courses, seminars, and other academic events designed to advance knowledge of archaeological activity, research fieldwork, and scientific techniques, providing today's multidisciplinary scholars with a more complete understanding of past cultures and histories from around the world.

Gary Urton (chair), Suzanne Blier, William L. Fash, Ioli Kalavrezou, C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, Peter B. Machinist, Michael McCormick, Richard H. Meadow, Laura Nasrallah, Betsey A. Robinson, Lawrence E. Stager, and Irene J. Winter (on leave 2007-2008).

Asian Studies, Council On—... exists to coordinate, advise, and promote teaching and research on Asia. It's membership consists of faculty members from across the University who oversee or advise several specific academic programs, including A.M., A.B., and Ph.D. degrees, as well as provide oversight for the Harvard University Asia Center, which itself coordinates and supports research, teaching, public programs, and special events on Asia throughout the University.

Anthony Saich (chair), Ryuichi Abe (on leave spring term), Theodore C. Bestor, Homi K. Bhabha, Barry R. Bloom, Peter Bol, Harold Bolitho, Sugata Bose, Mary C. Brinton, James Cheng, Diana L. Eck, Carter J. Eckert, Mark Elliott, Shengli Feng, Andrew D. Gordon (on leave fall term), Janet Gyatso (on leave 2007-2008), Helen Hardacre (on leave fall term), William Hsiao, Wilt Lukas Idema, Wesley M. Jacobsen, William C. Kirby (on leave fall term), Arthur M. Kleinman (on leave fall term), Wai-Yee Li, Roderick MacFarquhar (on leave fall term), David R. McCann (on leave spring term), Michael B. McElroy, Anne E. Monius, Robert Dean Mowry, Stephen Owen (on leave fall term), Elizabeth J. Perry, Susan J. Pharr, Michael J. Puett, John Ramseyer, Mary M. Steedly, Hue-Tam Ho Tai (on leave spring term), Wei-ming Tu, Leonard W.J. van der Kuijp (on leave fall term), Richard H. K. Vietor, David Wang, Eugene Yuejin Wang (on leave fall term), James L. Watson, Louis T. Wells, Jr., and Martin K. Whyte.

Ethnic Studies—...is an Interdisciplinary Coordinating Committee constituted of faculty members from across the disciplines appointed to encourage and promote course offerings on ethnicity in the United States. Along with courses which focus on the study of aspects of collective identity shaped by factors ranging from descent to affinity, the committee offers grants, sponsors special events, awards prizes and liaises with student groups engaged in activities related to the study of ethnicity.

(2007-2008 membership information is not yet available. The following are the 2006-2007 members.) Kay K. Shelemay (Chair), Ali S. A. Asani, Lisa T. Brooks, Vincent Brown, Joyce Elizabeth Chaplin (on leave fall term), Kimberly DaCosta, Deborah Foster, Jennifer L. Hochschild, Michèle Lamont (on leave 2006-2007), Susan Lewis, Carmen Lopez, Malinda Maynor Lowery, Marc Shell (on leave fall term), Werner Sollors, Rachel St. John, Lucien Taylor, and Mary C. Waters .

European Studies—...is the formal oversight body for the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. It is comprised of those faculty members who have their offices in the Center and selected other representatives of FAS and of other universities in the Boston area who remain active in the study and teaching of modern Europe. It offers an interdisciplinary program designed to enhance the knowledge and understanding of political, social, economic and cultural developments in modern Europe.

David G. Blackbourn (chair ), Peter J. Burgard, Pepper D. Culpepper, Grzegorz Ekiert, Niall Ferguson, Peter Eli Gordon, P.L. Higonnet (on leave fall term), Stanley Hoffmann, Torben Iversen, Maya Jasanoff (on leave spring term), Mary D. Lewis (on leave 2007-08), Charles S. Maier, Cindy Skach, Theda Skocpol, Judith Surkis (on leave spring term), and Daniel Foran Ziblatt (on leave 2007-08).

Global Health—...... seeks to promote expanded and enhanced opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students by coordinating existing course offerings related to issues of global health, a fundamentally interdisciplinary set of challenges.

Paul Farmer (co-chair), Arthur M. Kleinman (co-chair) (on leave fall term), David E. Bloom, Allan M. Brandt (on leave 2007-2008), Dan Brock, Nicholas Christakis, David M. Cutler, David A. Edwards, Myron E. Essex, Susanne J. Goldie, Byron J. Good, Mary-Jo Delvecchio Good, Daniel L. Hartl, Jim Yong Kim, Gary King, Michèle Lamont, Jennifer Leaning, Ingrid Monson, Amartya Sen, Bruce Walker, and Lucie E. White.

Latin American and Iberian Studies—...administers the activities of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies which coordinates research, teaching, and public programs on Latin American and related fields such as the Caribbean, the Iberian peninsula, and the Latin American Diaspora in the United States. Although the committee does not offer an undergraduate concentration or an advance degree, it awards a Certificate in Latin American Studies to Harvard College students who what completed an approved course of study as part of their work toward to A.B. degree in many concentrations.

Davíd L. Carrasco (chair), Luis Cárcamo-Huechanten (on leave fall term), Joaquim-Francisco Coelho, Thomas Cummins (on leave 2007-2008), Jorge Domínguez, Bradley S. Epps, Brian D. Farrell, William L. Fash, Luis Fernández-Cifuentes, Jeffry Frieden, Mary M. Gaylord, James Hanken, N. Michele Holbrook, Steven Levitsky, J. Lorand Matory, Marcelo Moriera (on leave spring term), Donald H. Pfister, Doris Sommer, Diana Sorensen, Gary Urton, and John Jr. Womack.

Oceanography—...exists to discuss problems of mutual interest between departments whose fields encompass the basic scientific and mathematical disciplines fundamental to oceanographic study, to advise on issues of cross-departmental importance, and to make recommendations to the Administration concerning course offerings, faculty appointments, research facilities, and interinstitutional arrangements with places like the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Eli Tziperman (chair) (on leave fall term), Peter John Huybers, James J. McCarthy, and Daniel P. Schrag.

South Asian Studies—...is a multi-disciplinary group of scholars appointed to coordinate teaching and research on South Asia (the nation-states of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, the Maldives and their neighboring areas) among Harvard's departments and schools and is concerned with the planned development of South Asian studies in the University as a whole.

Sugata Bose* (chair), Ali S. A. Asani, Homi K. Bhabha*, Diana L. Eck, Rena Fonseca, William A. Graham, Jr., Engseng Ho, Smita Lahiri (on leave fall term), Roderick MacFarquhar (on leave fall term), Parimal Ganapati Patil, Peter P. Rogers, Amartya Sen*, Ajantha Subramanian, Leonard W.J. van der Kuijp (on leave fall term), Michael Witzel, and Richard K. Wolf.

* Executive Committee