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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.

(2009-2010 membership information is not yet available. The following are the 2008-2009 members.) Jacob Olupona (chair) (on leave spring term), Kay K. Shelemay (acting chair), Rawi Abdelal, Leila Ahmed, Emmanuel Akyeampong, Ali S. A. Asani, Robert H. Bates (on leave 2008-2009), Suzanne Blier, David Bloom, Rita Breen (executive officer), Catherine Duggan, Felton James Earls III, Caroline M. Elkins, Majid Ezzati, Wafaie Fawzi, Deborah Foster, Duana Fullwiley, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (ex officio), Allan G. Hill, Nahomi Ichino, Francis Abiola Irele, Biodun Jeyifo, Matthew Jukes, Calestous Juma, Michael Kremer, J. Lorand Matory, Jens Meierhenrich, Ingrid Monson, John Mugane, Matthias Schündeln, Lucie E. White, Richard K. Wolf (on leave fall term).

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.

Michael McCormick (chair), Ofer Bar-Yosef, Ruth Bielfeldt (on leave 2009-10), Suzanne Blier (on leave 2009-10), Susanne Ebbinghaus, William L. Fash, Ioli Kalavrezou (on leave 2009-10), C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, Matthew Liebmann, Peter B. Machinist, Richard H. Meadow, Laura Nasrallah (on leave fall term), Lawrence E. Stager, Noreen Tuross (on leave spring term), Jason Ur, Gary Urton.

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.

(2009-2010 membership information is not yet available. The following are the 2008-2009 members.) Arthur M. Kleinman (chair), Ryuichi Abé, William P. Alford, Ali S. A. Asani, Theodore C. Bestor, Barry R. Bloom, Peter Bol, Sugata Bose, Mary C. Brinton (on leave 2008-2009), James Cheng, Preston Scott Cohen, Diana L. Eck, Carter J. Eckert (on leave spring term), Mark Elliott (on leave spring term), Shengli Feng, Byron Good, Mary-Jo Delvecchio Good, Andrew D. Gordon, Janet Gyatso, Helen Hardacre, Henrietta Harrison (on leave fall term), Ricardo Hausmann, Michael Herzfeld, William Hsiao, C. -T. James Huang, Wilt Lukas Idema, Wesley M. Jacobsen, Alastair Iain Johnston, Tarun Khanna, Sun Joo Kim, William C. Kirby, Shigehisa Kuriyama, Wai-yee Li, Roderick MacFarquhar, David R. McCann, Michael B. McElroy, Anne Monius, Robert Dean Mowry, Stephen Owen, Elizabeth J. Perry, Susan J. Pharr, Michael J. Puett (on leave 2008-2009), John Ramseyer, Dani Rodrik, Anthony Saich, Mary M. Steedly (on leave 2008-2009), Hue-Tam Ho Tai, Xiaofei Tian, Wei-ming Tu (on leave fall term), Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp, David Wang (on leave spring term), Eugene Yuejin Wang, James L. Watson (on leave fall term), Martin K. Whyte, Michael Witzel (on leave fall term), Richard K. Wolf (on leave fall term).

Ethnic Studies—... is comprised of faculty members from across the disciplines and schools whose work focuses on ethnicity, migration, indigeneity, and human rights who cooperate in this interdisciplinary committee to provide course enrichment for Harvard College students, particularly in Asian American/Transpacific, Native American/Indigenous, and US Latino/American hemispheric topics, with an American focus in a transnational contexty.

Werner Sollors (chair), Ali Asani, Homi Bhabha, Jacqueline Bhabha, Lisa Brooks, Vincent Brown, Glenda Carpio, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Joyce Chaplin, Emma Dench, Caroline Elkins, William Fash, Deborah Foster, Jennifer Hochschild (on leave fall term), Walter Johnson, Stephen Kosslyn, Michèle Lamont, Matthew Liebmann, Shelly Lowe, Ingrid Monson (on leave 2009-2010), Gerald Neuman, Mica Pollock, Michael Puett, Fernando Reimers, Edward Schumacher, Marc Shell, Doris Sommer (on leave 2009-2010), Rachel St. John, Ajantha Subramanian, Kimberly Theidon, Joanne van der Woude.

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), Pepper D. Culpepper, Grzegorz Ekiert (on leave 2009-10), Niall Ferguson, Peter Eli Gordon, Peter A. Hall (on leave spring term), Maya Jasanoff, Mary D. Lewis, Charles S. Maier, Judith Surkis, Daniel Ziblatt.

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.

David M. Cutler (co-chair), Paul Farmer (co-chair), David Bloom, Allan M. Brandt, Dan Brock, Colleen M. Cavanaugh, Nicholas Christakis (on leave spring term), David A. Edwards, Myron Essex, Richard G. Frank, Susanne Goldie, Mary-Jo Delvecchio Good, David A. Haig (on leave 2009-10), Daniel L. Hartl, Gary King, Arthur M. Kleinman, Michèle Lamont, Jennifer Leaning, Robert Lue, John Mugane, Daniel P. Schrag, 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.

(2009-2010 membership information is not yet available. The following are the 2008-2009 members.) Davíd Carrasco (chair) (on leave 2008-2009), Luis Cárcamo-Huechante, Joaquim-Francisco Coelho, Thomas Cummins, Jorge Domínguez, Bradley S. Epps (on leave 2008-2009), Brian D. Farrell, William L. Fash, Luis Fernández-Cifuentes, Jeffry Frieden, Mary M. Gaylord (on leave spring term), Merilee Grindle (ex officio), James Hanken, N. Michele Holbrook, Steven Levitsky, J. Lorand Matory, Doris Sommer, Diana Sorensen, Gary Urton (on leave spring term).

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), Peter Huybers, James J. McCarthy (on leave 2009-10), 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.

(2009-2010 membership information is not yet available. The following are the 2008-2009 members.) Sugata Bose (chair), Asad Ahmed, Ali S. A. Asani, Homi K. Bhabha (on leave fall term), Diana L. Eck, Smita Lahiri, Sendhil Mullainathan, Parimal Ganapati Patil (on leave 2008-2009), Amartya Sen (on leave spring term), Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp, Michael Witzel (on leave fall term), Richard K. Wolf (on leave fall term).