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Faculty of Arts and Sciences Standing Committees 2006-07

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Curricular committees – undergraduate degree programs

Upon the recommendation of the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), the president approved and announced the following Standing Committees at the recent FAS Faculty Meeting. Standing Committees of the faculty are constituted to perform a continuing function. Each committee has been established by a vote of the faculty, and can be dissolved only by a vote of the faculty or, with the agreement of a particular Committee, by the dean and Faculty Council. The dean recommends the membership of each committee annually.

Curricular committees – undergraduate degree programs

Chemical and Physical Biology, Degrees In – Erin O’Shea (chair), Howard C. Berg, Michael P. Brenner, Jon Clardy, Melissa Franklin, Rachelle Gaudet, Stephen C. Harrison, Eric N. Jacobsen, David Jeruzalmi, Daniel Kahne, Nancy E. Kleckner, David R. Liu, Richard M. Losick, Robert Lue, David R. Nelson, Stuart L. Schreiber (on leave, fall term), Greg Tucci, Suzanne Walker, Christopher T. Walsh, Xiaoliang Sunney Xie (on leave fall term), and Xiaowei Zhuang.

Environmental Science and Public Policy, concentration in – James J. McCarthy (chair), William C. Clark, Richard T. T. Forman, Jerry R. Green, N. Michele Holbrook, John P. Holdren, Sheila Jasanoff, Michael B. McElroy, Peter P. Rogers (on leave, spring term), Daniel P. Schrag, Robert Stavins (on leave 2006-07), and Steven C. Wofsy.

Folklore and Mythology, Degrees In (Steering Committee) – Stephen A. Mitchell (chair), Lisa T. Brooks, Julie A. Buckler (on leave 2006-07), Deborah Foster, Joseph C. Harris, Michael Herzfeld (on leave spring term), Barbara L. Hillers, D. G. Mitten, Gregory Nagy, Robert Orsi, Kimberley C. Patton, Michael J. Puett, Panagiotis Roilos, James R. Russell, Maria M. Tatar (on leave fall term), and Jan M. Ziolkowski.

History and Literature, Degrees (Steering Committee) – Jill Lepore (chair), David Armitage (on leave fall term), Robin Bernstein, Homi K. Bhabha, Steven Biel, Ann M. Blair (on leave fall term), Sugata Bose, Lisa T. Brooks, Julie A. Buckler (on leave 2006-07), Lawrence Buell, Daniel G. Donoghue, James T. Engell, Lynn Mary Festa, Jeanne Follansbee Quinn, Virginie Greene, Blair Hoxby (on leave, fall term), Barbara K. Lewalski, Louis Menand, Leah Price (on leave 2006-07), Charles Rosenberg, Doris Sommer (on leave fall term), John Stauffer, and Judith Surkis (on leave fall term).

Literature, degrees in – Stephen Owen (chair), Daniel Albright, Svetlana Boym, Julie A. Buckler (on leave 2006-07), Verena Andermatt Conley, James T. Engell, Marjorie Garber, Luis Manuel Girón Negrón, John T. Hamilton, Christopher Johnson, Despina Kakoudaki (on leave spring term), Christie McDonald (on leave 2006-07), Sandra Naddaff, Gregory Nagy, Judith L. Ryan, Marc Shell (on leave fall term), Werner Sollors, Susan R. Suleiman, William Mills Todd III, and Justin McCabe Weir.

Neurobiology, Degrees In – John E. Dowling (chair), Randy Buckner, Catherine Dulac, Florian Engert, Samuel Martin Kunes, Jeff Lichtman, Markus Meister, Venkatesh N. Murthy, Naomi E. Pierce, Robert C. Reid, Aravinthan Samuel, Joshua Sanes, Garrett B. Stanley, and Rachel Wilson.

Study of Religion+ – Robert Orsi (chair), Ryuichi Abé, M. Shahab Ahmed, Ali S. A. Asani, Wallace Best, Shaye J.D. Cohen, Francis Fiorenza, Marla Frederick, William A. Graham Jr., Janet Gyatso, Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Baber Johansen, Christopher P. Jones, Thomas Lewis, Parimal Ganapati Patil, Michael J. Puett, Jonathan Schofer, Ronald Thiemann (on leave spring term), and Leonard W.J. van der Kuijp.

Social Studies, Degrees In – Richard Tuck (chair), David Armitage (on leave fall term), Anya Bernstein, Mariko A.L. Chang, John H. Coatsworth (on leave fall term), Richard N. Cooper, Kimberly DaCosta, Peter Eli Gordon, Peter A. Hall (on leave 2006-07), Michael Herzfeld (on leave spring term), Michael J. Hiscox (on leave fall term), Engseng Ho (on leave fall term), Stanley Hoffmann, James T. Kloppenberg (on leave 2006-07), Michael Kremer, Michèle Lamont (on leave 2006-07), Steven Levitsky, Charles S. Maier (on leave spring term), Jens Meierhenrich (on leave fall term), D. Glyn Morgan, Elizabeth J. Perry, Nancy L. Rosenblum, Michael J. Sandel (on leave fall term), Matthias Schündeln, Tommie Shelby, Mary M. Steedly, Ajantha Subramanian, Christopher Winship, and Daniel Foran Ziblatt.

Special Concentrations – Julie A. Buckler (chair; on leave 2006-07), Allan M. Brandt, Deborah Foster, Byron Good, Mary-Jo Delvecchio Good, David A. Haig, Jason Kaufman, Stephen M. Kosslyn, Karel F. Liem, Elizabeth Dyrud Lyman, Stephen A. Marglin (on leave fall term), Robb Moss, Sandra Naddaff, Peter P. Rogers (on leave spring term), Daniel M. Wegner, Christopher Winship, and Richard K. Wolf.

Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Degrees In – Bradley S. Epps (chair), Leila Ahmed, Janet Beizer, Robin Bernstein, Giuliana Bruno (on leave fall term), Julie A. Buckler (on leave 2006-07), Peter J. Burgard, Glenda Carpio, Nancy Cott, Drew Gilpin Faust, Karen Flood, Warren Goldfarb, Janet E. Halley, Evelynn Hammonds, Helen Hardacre, Alice A. Jardine (on leave 2006-07), Susan Kahn, Matthew Kaiser, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Wendy Luttrell, Christie McDonald (on leave 2006-07), Afsaneh Najmabadi (on leave fall term), Katharine Park (on leave spring term), Mary Ruggie, Sharmila Sen, Susan R. Suleiman, Judith Surkis (on leave fall term), and Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.

Curricular Committees – graduate degree programs

American Civilization, Higher Degrees in the History of – John Stauffer (chair), Sven Beckert, Ann Braude, Lisa T. Brooks, Lawrence Buell, Joyce Chaplin (on leave 2006-07), Lizabeth Cohen, Nancy Cott, Margaret Crawford, Henry Louis Gates Jr., David D. Hall, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Jennifer L. Hochschild, Morton Jay Horwitz (on leave 2006-07), Walter Johnson, Robin E. Kelsey (on leave 2006-07), Alexander Keyssar, James T. Kloppenberg (on leave 2006-07), Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, Jill Lepore, Malinda Maynor Lowery, Louis Menand, Carol J. Oja, Robert Orsi, Julie Reuben, Jennifer Roberts, Charles Rosenberg, Marc Shell (on leave fall term), Werner Sollors, Doris Sommer (on leave 2006-07), Jason Stevens, and Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.

Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning, Degree of Doctor of Philosophy In – Antoine Picon (chair), Eve Blau, Svetlana Boym, Giuliana Bruno (on leave 2006-07), Lizabeth Cohen, Margaret Crawford, Susan Fainstein, Peter L. Galison, K. Michael Hays, Jerold Kayden, Neil Levine, Alina A. Payne, Hashim Sarkis, and Christine Smith.

Biophysics, Higher Degrees In – James M. Hogle (chair), Howard C. Berg, Stephen Blacklow, George Church, Stephen C. Harrison, David R. Liu, Markus Meister, Aravinthan Samuel, Eugene I. Shakhnovich (on leave fall term), Gerhard Wagner, and Xiaowei Zhuang.

Business Studies, Higher Degrees In – Amy Edmondson (chair), Teresa Amabile, Carliss Baldwin, Mahzarin Banaji, John Y. Campbell, Lee O. Fleming, Jerry R. Green, H. T. Kung (on leave fall term), Josh Lerner, Peter V. Marsden, Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Nitin Nohria, Ariel Pakes, David C. Parkes, Jeffrey Polzer, Jan W. Rivkin, Alvin E. Roth, David Scharfstein, Margo I. Seltzer (on leave fall term), Jeremy C. Stein, Stefan H. Thomke, Luis Viceira, Christopher Winship, Woodward Yang, and Dennis Yao.

• Business Economics, Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in – Jerry R. Green (chair), Amy Edmondson (ex officio), John Y. Campbell, Josh Lerner, Ariel Pakes, Alvin E. Roth, David Scharfstein, Jeremy C. Stein, Luis Viceira, and Dennis Yao.

• Information Technology and Management, Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in – H. T. Kung (co-chair; on leave fall term), Stefan H. Thomke (co-chair), Amy Edmondson (ex officio), Carliss Baldwin, Lee O. Fleming, Venkatesh Narayanamurti, David C. Parkes, Jan W. Rivkin, Margo I. Seltzer (on leave fall term), and Woodward Yang.

• Organizational Behavior, Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in – 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), Gregory L. Verdine (co-chair), Daniel Kahne, and Suzanne Walker.

Chemical Physics, Degree of Doctor of Philosophy In – Eric J. Heller (chair), John M. Doyle, Roy G. Gordon, Eugene I. Shakhnovich (on leave fall term), Xiaoliang Sunney Xie (on leave fall term), and Xiaowei Zhuang.

Dental Medicine, Higher degrees in – Bjorn R. Olsen (chair), John D. Bartlett, Joyce Bischoff, Paticia D’Amore, Floyd Dewhirst, Daniel Finley, David Fisher, James Hanken (on leave fall term), Peter Hauschka, Martin Hemler, Michael Klagsbrun, Henry Kronenberg, Beate Lanske, Andrew Lassar, Michael Levin, Yefu Li, Yi-Ping Li, Henry Margolis, Alan Michelson, Bruce Paster, Vicki Rosen, Charles Serhan, Philip Stashenko, Martin Taubman, and Malcolm Whitman.

Health Policy, Degree of Doctor of Philosophy In – Joseph P. Newhouse (chair), Alyce Adams, Robert Blendon, David Bloom, Allan M. Brandt, Daniel Carpenter, Michael Chernew, Nicholas Christakis, Paul D. Cleary, David M. Cutler, Norman Daniels, Amy Edmondson, Einer Elhauge, Arnold Epstein, Erica Field (on leave fall term), Richard G. Frank, G. Scott Gazelle, Susanne Goldie, David Grabowski, James Hammit, Robert Huckman, Haiden Huskamp, Nancy Kane, Gary King (on leave fall term), Peter V. Marsden, Marie McCormick, Thomas McGuire, Barbara McNeil, Sharon-Lise Normand, Gary Pisano, Lisa Prosser, Meredith Rosenthal, Donald B. Rubin (on leave fall term), 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 – Mark Elliott (chair), Peter Bol (on leave fall term), Harold Bolitho, Carter J. Eckert, Andrew D. Gordon, Henrietta Harrison, William C. Kirby, Shigehisa Kuriyama (on leave spring term), Michael J. Puett, and Hue-Tam Ho Tai.

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

Medical Sciences, Higher Degrees In – Thomas McCoy Roberts (chair), Thomas O. Fox (ex officio), Nancy C. Andrews, Michael C. Carroll, Susan M. Dymecki, Raymond L. Erikson, Edward E. Harlow, Stephen C. Harrison, Peter Howley, Robert Kingston, David Knipe, Philip Leder, Rosalind Anne Segal, Michael Starnbach, Shannon Turley, Christopher T. Walsh, and Gary Yellen.

Middle Eastern Studies – Steven C. Caton (chair), Leila Ahmed, Ali S. A. Asani, Sugata Bose, Marwa Elshakry (on leave 2006-07), Mary-Jo Delvecchio Good, William E. Granara, Engseng Ho (on leave fall term), Miri Kubovy, Edward Roger Owen, David J. Roxburgh, and A. Hashim Sarkis.

Political Economy and Government, Higher Degrees In – Torben Iversen (chair), Christopher Avery, Robert H. Bates, Daniel Carpenter, Suzanne Cooper, Jeffry Frieden (on leave fall term), Edward L. Glaeser, Elhanan Helpman, Michael J. Hiscox (on leave fall term), William Hogan, David I. Laibson (on leave fall term), Nolan Miller, Joseph P. Newhouse, John Ramseyer, Dani Rodrik, Alvin E. Roth, Kenneth A. Shepsle, Beth Simmons, Robert Stavins (on leave 2006-07), and Richard Zeckhauser.

Public Health Sciences, Higher Degrees In – James Hutchinson Ware (chair), Bruce Demple, Thomas O. Fox, Laurie Glimcher, Michael Grusby, J. Woodland Hastings, Nan Laird, Xiao-Li Meng, Carl N. Morris (on leave fall term), and Louise Ryan.

n Doctor of Philosophy in Biological Sciences in Public Health – Michael Grusby (chair), Bruce Demple, Douglas Dockery, Raymond L. Erikson, Thomas O. Fox, Laurie Glimcher, J. Woodland Hastings, Gokhan Hotamisligil, Bjorn R. Olsen, Walter Willett, and Dyann F. Wirth.

• Doctor of Philosophy in Biostatistics – Louise Ryan (chair), Nan Laird, Xiao-Li Meng, Carl N. Morris (on leave fall term), and James Hutchinson Ware

Public Policy – Robert Stavins (chair; on leave 2006-07), Alberto Abadie, Arthur Applebaum, Iris Bohnet, William C. Clark, Pepper D. Culpepper, Susan Dynarski, David Ellwood, Jeffry Frankel, Ricardo Hausmann, Sheila Jasanoff, Christopher Jencks, Joseph Kalt, David Lazer, Mark Moore, Erich Muehlegger, Dani Rodrik, Anthony Saich, Monica Toft, and Richard Zeckhauser.

Regional Studies – East Asia, A.M. Degree In – David R. McCann (Acting chair fall term), David Wang (chair) (on leave fall term), Mikael Adolphson, Yukio Lippit, Roderick MacFarquhar (on leave spring term), and Xiaofei Tian.

Regional Studies – Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia, A.M. Degree In – Timothy J. Colton (chair), Julie A. Buckler (on leave 2006-07), Patricia Rowe Chaput, Grzegorz Ekiert (on leave fall term), Michael S. Flier, George G. Grabowicz, Yoshiko M. Herrera, John E. Malmstad (on leave spring term), Terry Martin, James R. Russell, Stephanie Sandler, and William Mills Todd III.

Social Policy, Higher degrees in – Jeffrey Liebman (chair), Jennifer L. Hochschild, Christopher Jencks, William J. Wilson, and Christopher Winship.

Systems Biology, Degree of Doctor of Philosophy In – Pamela Silver (chair), Michael P. Brenner, Lewis Cantley, George Church, Daniel S. Fisher (on leave fall term), Walter Fontana, Melissa Franklin, Jeremy Gunawardena, Marc Kirschner, Roy Kishony, Galit Lahav, Eric Lander, Gavin Macbeath, Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan (on leave 2006-07), Christopher Marx, Tim Mitchison, Vamsi Mootha, Andrew W. Murray, Radhika Nagpal, Martin Nowak, Erin O’Shea, Kevin Parker, Johan Paulsson, Tom Rapoport, Brian Seed, Jagesh Shah, William Shih, Peter Sorger, Antoine Van Oijin, David A. Weitz, Xiaoliang Sunney Xie (on leave fall term), and Xiaowei Zhuang.

Instructional Program Committees

Core Program – Jeremy R. Knowles (chair), Benedict H. Gross (ex officio), Jeffry Frieden (on leave fall term), Thomas F. Kelly, John E. Malmstad (on leave spring term), Lisa L. Martin, William Mills Todd, III, Richard Tuck, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, and George M. Whitesides.

Core Program – Subcommittee on Foreign Cultures – John E. Malmstad (chair, on leave spring term), William Mills Todd III (acting chair spring term), Diana L. Eck, Stanley Hoffmann, Orlando Patterson (on leave fall term), Eric Rentschler, Mary M. Steedly, Hue-Tam Ho Tai, and Martin K. Whyte.

Core Program – Subcommittee on Historical Study – Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (chair), Andrew D. Gordon, Angeliki E. Laiou, and Edward Roger Owen.

Core Program – Subcommittee on Literature and the Arts – Thomas F. Kelly (chair), Jeffrey F. Hambuger, Ingrid Monson (on leave 2006-07), Lino Petile, David J. Roxburgh, James Simpson, John Stauffer, and Ruth Roskies Wisse (on leave spring term).

Core Program – Subcommittee on Quantitative Reasoning – Jeffry Frieden (chair; on leave fall term), Lisa L. Martin (acting chair), William H. Bossert, Michael P. Brenner, John Y. Campbell, Alyssa A. Goodman, Joseph D. Harris, and Carl N. Morris (on leave fall term).

Core Program – Subcommittee on Science – Robert P. Kirshner (chair; on leave 2006-07), George M. Whitesides (acting chair), Gary J. Feldman, David A. Haig, Farish A. Jenkins Jr., Michael B. McElroy, and Maryellen Ruvolo.

Core Program – Subcommittee on Social Analysis and Moral Reasoning – Richard Tuck (chair), Jennifer L. Hochschild, Jill M. Hooley (on leave fall term), Thomas M. Scanlon Jr., Theda Skocpol, and Dennis Thompson.

Dramatics – Robert Scanlan (chair), Elizabeth Bergmann, Deborah Foster, Marjorie Garber, Jorie Graham (on leave fall term), Elizabeth Dyrud Lyman, John C. Megan (ex officio), Robert Orchard (ex officio), Peter Sacks (on leave fall term), Elaine Scarry, and Robert Woodruff (ex officio).

Freshman Seminars – Georgene Herschbach (chair), Lawrence Buell, Lizabeth Cohen, Gerard Denault (ex officio), Jerry R. Green, Virginie Greene, J. Woodland Hastings, J.W. Hutchinson (on leave fall term), Sandra Naddaff (ex officio), and Stephanie Sandler.

Medieval Studies – Nicholas Watson (chair), Charles Jr. Donahue, John Duffy (on leave fall term), Michael S. Flier, Virginie Greene, Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Michael Hemment, Amy Hollywood, Ioli Kalavrezou, Thomas F. Kelly, Beverly M. Kienzle, Angeliki E. Laiou, Kevin Madigan (on leave 2006-07), Michael McCormick, Catherine McKenna (on leave spring term), John E. Murdoch, Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, Katharine Park (on leave spring term), Bernard Septimus, William James Simpson, Daniel Lord Smail, Christine Smith, William P. Stoneman, Richard J. Tarrant, Hugo van der Velden, and Jan M. Ziolkowski.

Ukrainian Studies – Michael S. Flier (chair), Patricia Rowe Chaput, Timothy J. Colton, Grzegorz Ekiert (on leave fall term), George G. Grabowicz, and Terry Martin.

Writing and Speaking (formerly the Core Program Subcommittee on Expository Writing) – James Engell (chair), Mahzarin Banaji, Noel Bisson (ex officio), Georgene Herschbach, John Huth, N. Gregory Mankiw, Lisa L. Martin, David R. McCann, Sandra Naddaff, Naomi E. Pierce, Nancy Sommers (ex officio), and James D. Wilkinson (ex officio).

Interdisciplinary Coordinating Committees

African Studies – Jacob Olupona (chair), Rawi Abdelal, Kofi Agawu, Leila Ahmed, Ali S. A. Asani, Robert H. Bates, Suzanne Blier, Rita Breen (executive officer), Prudence Carter (on leave fall term), Felton James Earls, III, Caroline M. Elkins (on leave 2006-07), Majid Ezzati, Wafaie Fawzi, Deborah Foster, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Allan G. Hill, Nahomi Ichino, Francis Abiola Irele, Biodun Jeyifo, Calestous Juma, Michael Kremer, Nike Lawal, Harry S. Martin, III, J. Lorand Matory (on leave fall term), Jens Meierhenrich (on leave fall term), Ingrid Monson, John Mugane, Pauline E. Peters, Matthias Schündeln, Kay K. Shelemay, Debora Spar, Lucie E. White, and Richard K. Wolf.

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

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

Ethnic Studies – 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 2006-07), 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 – Charles Maier (co-chair; on leave spring term), David Blackbourn (co-chair; on leave fall term), Suzanne D. Berger (MIT), Peter J. Burgard, Pepper D. Culpepper, Grzegorz Ekiert (on leave fall term), Niall Ferguson, Laura Frader (Northeastern), Guido G. Goldman, Peter Eli Gordon, P.L. Higonnet, Stanley Hoffmann, Torben Iversen, Mary D. Lewis, George Ross (Brandeis), Cindy Skach (on leave fall term), Theda Skocpol, Tony Smith (Tufts), Judith Surkis (on leave fall term), and Daniel Foran Ziblatt.

Global Health – Arthur M. Kleinman (co-chair), Christopher Murray (co-chair), David E. Bloom, Allan M. Brandt, Dan Brock, Nicholas Christakis, David M. Cutler, David A. Edwards, Myron E. Essex, Paul Farmer, Drew Gilpin Faust, Susanne J. Goldie, Byron J. Good, Mary-Jo Delvecchio Good, Daniel L. Hartl, Jim Yong Kim, Gary King, Michael Kremer, Michèle Lamont, Jennifer Leaning, Ingrid Monson, Amartya Sen, Bruce Walker, and Lucie E. White.

Latin American and Iberian Studies – Merilee Grindle (chair), Luis Cárcamo-Huechante, Joaquim-Francisco Coelho (on leave spring term), Thomas Cummins, Jorge Domínguez, Bradley S. Epps, Brian D. Farrell, William L. Fash, Luis Fernández-Cifuentes, Jeffry Frieden (on leave fall term), Mary M. Gaylord, James Hanken (on leave fall term), N. Michele Holbrook, Steven Levitsky, J. Lorand Matory (on leave fall term), Donald H. Pfister, James Robinson, Diana Sorensen, Gary Urton, and John Jr. Womack.

Mind, Brain, and Behavior – John E. Dowling (co-chair), Richard W. Wrangham (co-chair; on leave fall term), Marc D. Hauser (acting co-chair), John A. Assad, Mahzarin Banaji, Cedric Boeckx (on leave fall term), Randy Buckner, Verne Caviness Jr., Gennaro Chierchia, Peter T. Ellison, Florian Engert, Joshua Fineberg, Kurt Fischer, Albert M. Galaburda, Howard Gardner, Peter Godfrey-Smith, David A. Haig, Anne Harrington, Sean Kelly, Cheryl Knott, Edward A. Kravitz, David I. Laibson (on leave fall term), Jeff Lichtman, Richard J. McNally (on leave 2006-07), Avrom J. Pfeffer, Naomi E. Pierce, Steven Pinker (on leave fall term), Maryellen Ruvolo, Joshua Sanes, Susanna Siegel, Elizabeth S. Spelke (on leave 2006-07), Garrett B. Stanley, Robert A. Stickgold, and Mark J. Tramo.

Oceanography – Eli Tziperman (chair), James J. McCarthy, and Daniel P. Schrag.

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

Undergraduate Committees (Noncurricular)

Admissions and Financial Aid in Harvard College – William R. Fitzsimmons (chair), Benedict H. Gross (ex officio), Marlyn McGrath Lewis (ex officio), Paul Barreira, Thomas A. Dingman, Sarah Clark Donahue (ex officio), John E. Dowling, Mary M. Gaylord, Guido Guidotti, Joseph Harris, J. Woodland Hastings, Harry R. Lewis, David R. McCann, James J. McCarthy, Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Richard J. O’Connell, Orlando Patterson, John P. Reardon Jr., David S. Rosenthal, Robert L. Scalise, Nancy Sommers, Frans A. Spaepen, John Stauffer, Steven C. Wofsy, and Robert M. Woollacott.

Advising and Counseling – Daniel Donoghue (co-chair), Donald Pfister (co-chair), Inge Ameer (ex officio), Noel Bisson (ex officio), Marie Dahleh (ex officio), Thomas Dingman (ex officio), James Mancall (ex officio), David Pilbeam (ex officio), Monique Rinere (ex officio), William Wright-Swadel (ex officio), Anya Bernstein, Sue Brown, Jay Harris, J. W. Hutchinson, Sandra Nadaff, Catherine Shapiro, Stuart Shieber, Greg Tucci, and Diane Weinstein.

Arts, Council on The – Julie Buckler (chair), Elizabeth Bergmann, S. Allen Counter Jr., Deborah D. Foster, Jorie Graham (on leave fall term), Christopher Killip, Annette Lemieux, Cathleen McCormick, John C. Megan, Robert J. Orchard, Marcus Stern, and John Stewart.

Athletic Sports – Michael D. Smith (chair), Robert L. Scalise (ex officio), Joseph L. Badaracco Jr., Verena Andermatt Conley, Thomas A. Dingman, William R. Fitzsimmons, Benjamin M. Friedman, Paul Gompers, William A. Graham Jr., Jerry R. Green, Jill M. Hooley (on leave fall term), Samuel Martin Kunes, James J. McCarthy, Geoffrey M. Peters, John P. Reardon Jr., and David S. Rosenthal.

Education Abroad – John H. Coatsworth (chair; on leave 2006-07), Carter J. Eckert (acting chair), Emmanuel Akyeampong, Sugata Bose (on leave 2006-07), Jorge Dominguez, Grzegorz Ekiert, Brian D. Farrell, Luis Fernández-Cifuentes, William E. Granara, Georgene Herschbach, Leslie Hill, James J. McCarthy, and Howard Stone.

Public Service – Richard F. Thomas (chair; on leave fall term), Anya Bernstein (acting chair fall term), Dorothy Austin, Bradley S. Epps, Marshall L. Ganz, Judith H. Kidd, Doris Sommer, and Richard Wilson.

Administrative Committees

Benefits – Gary King (chair).

Bowdoin Prizes, Administration of – James D. Wilkinson (chair), Steven Biel.

Commencement Parts – Richard J. Tarrant (chair), David Jergen, Peter J. Gomes, Harry R. Lewis, Jacqueline O’Neill, John P. Reardon Jr., and Michael Shinagel.

Continuing Education – Barry C. Mazur (chair), Patricia Rowe Chaput, Warren D. Goldfarb, Andrew H. Knoll, Christie McDonald (on leave 2006-07), Gregory Nagy, Steven E. Ozment, Elaine Scarry.

General Scholarships and the Sheldon Fund – The Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (chair), the Deans of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the Deans of the Faculties of Business Administration, Dental Medicine, Design, Divinity, Education, Government, Law, Medicine, and Public Health.

Information Technology – J. Richard Hackman (chair; on leave fall term), Craig P. Hunter (acting chair fall term), Peter Bol, Nancy Cline, John Fitzgerald Gates, Howard Georgi III, Alyssa Goodman, Thomas Kelly, Gary King (on leave fall term), H.T. Kung (on leave fall term), Henry Leitner, Lawrence Levine, Robert Lue, Nancy Maull, Daniel Moriarty, Ken Nakayama, and Christopher Stubbs.

Library – Sidney Verba (chair), Kathleen M. Coleman (co-chair), and Nancy Cline (ex officio), M. Shahab Ahmed, Janet Beizer, Ann M. Blair (on leave fall term), Timothy J. Colton, James T. Engell, Mary M. Gaylord, Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Wilt Lukas Idema, Farish A. Jenkins, Lawrence Levine, and Stephanie Sandler.

Pedagogical Improvement – Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (chair), Inge-Lise Ameer, Paul Bergen, Noel Bisson, James T. Engell, Georgene Herschbach, Thomas Kelly, Robert Lue, Xiao-Li Meng, Noreen Tuross, and James D. Wilkinson.

Privacy, Accessibility, and Security of Records – Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. (chair).

Professional Conduct – Jeffry Frieden (chair; on leave fall term), Paul C. Martin (acting chair fall term), Gary J. Feldman, Philip James Fisher, Nancy L. Rosenblum (on leave 2006-07 ), John H. Shaw, and Gregory L. Verdine.