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Standing committees of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

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Upon the recommendation of the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), Harvard President Drew Faust has approved and announced the following Standing Committees. 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 (on leave spring term), Jon Clardy, Melissa Franklin, Rachelle Gaudet, Stephen C. Harrison, David Jeruzalmi, Daniel Kahne, Nancy E. Kleckner (on leave spring term), David R. Liu (on leave 2007-2008), Richard M. Losick, Robert Lue, David R. Nelson, Stuart L. Schreiber, 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, N. Michele Holbrook, John P. Holdren, Sheila Jasanoff, Michael B. McElroy, Peter P. Rogers, Daniel P. Schrag, Robert Stavins, Martin L. Weitzman, and Steven C. Wofsy.

Folklore and Mythology, Degrees In — Steering Committee — Stephen A. Mitchell (chair), Lisa T. Brooks (on leave fall term), Julie A. Buckler, Deborah Foster, Joseph C. Harris, Michael Herzfeld, Barbara L. Hillers (on leave spring term), Peter B. Machinist, D.G. Mitten (on leave spring term), Gregory Nagy, Kimberley C. Patton, Michael J. Puett, Panagiotis Roilos, John Stauffer (on leave fall term), Maria M. Tatar, and Jan M. Ziolkowski.

History and Literature, Degrees In — Steering Committee — Leah Price (acting chair fall term), Jill Lepore (chair on leave fall term), David Armitage, Robin Bernstein, Steven Biel, Ann M. Blair (on leave spring term), Sugata Bose, Lisa T. Brooks (on leave fall term), Janet Browne, Julie A. Buckler, Lawrence Buell, Daniel G. Donoghue (on leave spring term), James T. Engell (on leave fall term), Jeanne Follansbee Quinn, Virginie Greene (on leave 2007-2008), Maya Jasanoff (on leave spring term), Walter Johnson (on leave fall term), James T. Kloppenburg, Barbara K. Lewalski (on leave spring term), Louis Menand (on leave fall term), Doris Sommer, and Judith Surkis (on leave spring term).

Neurobiology, Degrees In — John E. Dowling (chair), Randy Buckner, Florian Engert, Takao Hensch, Samuel Martin Kunes, Carole Landisman, Jeff Lichtman, Johnathan Matsui, Markus Meister, Venkatesh N. Murthy, Bence Olveczky, Naomi E. Pierce, Aravinthan Samuel, Joshua Sanes, Naoshige Uchida, and Yun Zhang.

Study of Religion+ — Diana Eck (chair), Ryuichi Abé (on leave spring term), Leila Ahmed, Ali S.A. Asani, Shaye J.D. Cohen, Francis Fiorenza, Marla Frederick, Luis Manuel Girón-Negrón (on leave spring term), Peter J. Gomes, William A. Graham Jr., Jeffrey F. Hamburger (on leave 2007-2008), Helen Hardacre (on leave fall term), Christopher P. Jones, Karen King, David Lamberth, Kevin Madigan, Anne E. Monius, Jacob Olupona, Parimal Ganapati Patil, Kimberley C. Patton, and Michael J. Puett.

Social Studies, Degrees In — Charles S. Maier (acting chair), Richard Tuck (chair on leave fall term), David Armitage, Eric Beerbohm, Anya Bernstein, Richard N. Cooper, Kimberly DaCosta (on leave 2007-2008), Michael Frazer, Peter Eli Gordon, Peter A. Hall (on leave spring term), Michael Herzfeld, Michael J. Hiscox, Engseng Ho, Stanley Hoffmann, Andrew Jewett, Michael Kremer, Steven Levitsky, Jens Meierhenrich, D. Glyn Morgan, Elizabeth J. Perry, Nancy L. Rosenblum, Michael J. Sandel, Thomas M. Scanlon Jr., Matthias Schündeln (on leave 2007-2008), Tommie Shelby, Mary M. Steedly, Ajantha Subramanian, Jocelyn Viterna, Christopher Winship, and Daniel Foran Ziblatt.

Special Concentrations — Julie A. Buckler (chair), Allan M. Brandt (on leave 2007-2008), Deborah Foster, Byron Good, Mary-Jo Delvecchio Good, David A. Haig, Jason Kaufman, Karel F. Liem, Elizabeth Dyrud Lyman, Stephen A. Marglin, Robb Moss (on leave spring term), Sandra Naddaff, Peter P. Rogers, Daniel M. Wegner, Christopher Winship, and Richard K. Wolf.

Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Degrees In — Bradley S. Epps (chair), Janet Beizer, Robin Bernstein, Peter J. Burgard, Steven C. Caton, Nancy Cott, Karen Flood, Rachel Greenblatt, Evelynn Hammonds, Helen Hardacre (on leave fall term), Alice A. Jardine, Matthew Kaiser (on leave fall term), Christie McDonald, Afsaneh Najmabadi, Katharine Park (on leave fall term), Mary Steedly, Judith Surkis (on leave spring term), Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (on leave spring term), and Adelheid Voskuhl.

Curricular Committees — Graduate Degree Programs

American Civilization, Higher Degrees in the History of — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — (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 (on leave 2007-2008), 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 — 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 — Bjørn R. Olsen (chair), John D. Bartlett, Joyce Bischoff, Paticia A. D’Amore, Floyd Dewhirst, Daniel Finley, David E. Fisher, James Hanken, Peter V. Hauschka, Martin Hemler, Randall King, Michael Klagsbrun, Henry M. Kronenberg, Beate Lanske, Andrew B. Lassar, Michael Levin, Yefu Li, Yi-Ping Li, Henry C. Margolis, Bruce J. Paster, Vicki Rosen, Charles Serhan, Philip P. Stashenko, Kevin Struhl, Martin Taubman, and Malcolm Whitman.

Health Policy, Degree of Doctor of Philosphy In — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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), Bjørn R. Olsen, Walter Willett, and Dyann F. Wirth.

• Doctor of Philosophy in Biostatistics — Louise Ryan (chair), James Hutchinson Ware (ex officio), Nan Laird, Xiao-Li Meng, and Carl N. Morris.

Public Policy — Robert Stavins (chair), Alberto Abadie, Arthur Applbaum, 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 — 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 — 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 — 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.

Instructional Program Committees

Core Program — Michael D. Smith (chair), Jeffry Frieden, Thomas F. Kelly, John E. Malmstad, Thomas Scanlon Jr., Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (on leave spring term), and George M. Whitesides.

Core Program — Subcommittee on Foreign Cultures — John E. Malmstad (chair), Peter Burgard, Diana L. Eck, Stanley Hoffmann, Orlando Patterson, Eric Rentschler, Mary M. Steedly, Hue-Tam Ho Tai (on leave spring term), and Martin K. Whyte.

Core Program — Subcommittee on Historical Study — Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (chair on leave spring term), David Blackbourn, Carter J. Eckert, Angeliki E. Laiou, and Edward Roger Owen.

Core Program — Subcommittee on Literature and the Arts — Thomas F. Kelly (chair), Ingrid Monson, James Simpson (on leave spring term), John Stauffer (on leave fall term), William Mills Todd III, and Ruth Roskies Wisse.

Core Program — Subcommittee on Quantitative Reasoning — Jeffry Frieden (chair), William H. Bossert, Michael P. Brenner (on leave spring term), John Y. Campbell, Alyssa A. Goodman, Benedict Gross, Lisa L. Martin (on leave spring term), and Carl N. Morris.

Core Program — Subcommittee on Science — George M. Whitesides (chair), Gary J. Feldman, David A. Haig, Farish A. Jenkins Jr., Robert P. Kirshner, and Maryellen Ruvolo.

Core Program — Subcommittee on Social Analysis and Moral Reasoning — Thomas M. Scanlon Jr. (chair), Jennifer L. Hochschild, Jill M. Hooley, Michael Sandel, and Theda Skocpol.

Dramatics — Robert Scanlan (chair), Elizabeth Bergmann, Deborah Foster, Marjorie Garber (on leave spring term), Jorie Graham, Gordon M. Lester (ex officio), Elizabeth Dyrud Lyman, Christie McDonald, John C. Megan (ex officio), Robert Orchard (ex officio), Peter Sacks, Elaine Scarry (on leave spring term), Diana Sorensen (ex officio), Marcus Stern (ex officio), and Scott Zigler.

Freshman Seminars — Georgene Herschbach (chair ex officio), Julie Buckler, Lawrence Buell, Joyce Chaplin, Peter T. Ellison, Jerry Green, Virginie Greene (on leave 2007-2008), J. Woodland Hastings (on leave spring term), J. W. Hutchinson, and Sandra Naddaff (ex officio).

General Education — Jay M. Harris (chair), Ali S.A. Asani, Julie A. Buckler, Jerry R. Green, Edward J. Hall, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Jennifer Hochschild, Andrew H. Knoll, Andrew W. Murray, and Howard Stone.

Life Sciences Education — Douglas A. Melton (chair), Ann Georgi (ex officio), Georgene Herschbach (ex officio), Robert Lue (ex officio), Lee Ann Michelson (ex officio), Mazharin Banaji (on leave 2007-2008), John E. Dowling, Rachelle Gaudet, David A. Haig, Eric N. Jacobsen (on leave 2007-2008), Daniel Kahne, Daniel E. Lieberman, Richard M. Losick, Ken Nakayama, Erin O’Shea, and David Pilbeam.

Medieval Studies — Nicholas Watson (chair), Charles Donahue, John Duffy (on leave fall term), Michael S. Flier (on leave 2007-2008), Luis M. Girón Negrón (on leave spring term), Virginie Greene (on leave 2007-2008), Jeffrey F. Hamburger (on leave 2007-2008), Michael Hemment, Babar Johnson, Ioli Kalavrezou, Thomas F. Kelly, Beverly M. Kienzle, Angeliki E. Laiou, Kevin Madigan, Michael McCormick, Catherine McKenna, Steven Mitchell, John E. Murdoch (on leave spring term), Tomás O’Cathasaigh (on leave fall term), Katharine Park (on leave fall term), Panagiotis Roilos, Bernard Septimus, William James Simpson (on leave spring term), Daniel Smail (on leave 2007-2008), Christine Smith (on leave fall term), William P. Stoneman, Hugo van der Velden (on leave fall term), and Jan M. Ziolkowski.

Mind, Brain, and Behavior — John E. Dowling (co-chair), Richard W. Wrangham (co-chair), Cedric Boeckx, Richard T. Born, Randy Buckner, Verne Caviness Jr., Gennaro Chierchia, Peter T. Ellison, Florian Engert, Joshua Fineberg, Kurt Fischer, Albert M. Galaburda, Howard Gardner, Peter Godfrey-Smith (on leave fall term), Joshua D. Greene, Anne Harrington, Marc D. Hauser, Sean Kelly (on leave 2007-2008), Cheryl Knott, Edward A. Kravitz, David I. Laibson, Jeff Lichtman, Margaret Livingstone, Richard J. McNally, Jason Mitchell, Bence Olvecsky, Avrom J. Pfeffer, Naomi E. Pierce, Steven Pinker, Joshua Sanes, Susanna Siegel, Elizabeth S. Spelke, Robert A. Stickgold, and Mark J. Tramo.

Ukrainian Studies — Michael S. Flier (chair on leave 2007-2008), Patricia Rowe Chaput, Timothy J. Colton, Grzegorz Ekiert, George G. Grabowicz (on leave spring term), and Terry Martin (on leave 2007-2008).

Writing and Speaking — James Engell (chair on leave fall term), David R. McCann (acting chair on leave spring term), Courtney Bickel-Lamberth, John Y. Campbell, Jay Harris, Georgene Herschbach (ex officio), Jill Hooley, Thomas Jehn (ex officio), Lisa L. Martin (on leave spring term), Sandra Naddaff, Margo Seltzer, and James D. Wilkinson (ex officio).

Interdisciplinary Coordinating Committees

African Studies — 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 — 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 — 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 — To be announced.

European Studies — 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 2007-2008), Charles S. Maier, Cindy Skach, Theda Skocpol, Judith Surkis (on leave spring term), and Daniel Foran Ziblatt (on leave 2007-2008).

Global Health — 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 — Davíd L. Carrasco (chair), Luis Cárcamo-Huechante (on leave fall term), Joaquim-Francisco Coelho, Thomas Cummins (on leave fall term), Jorge Domínguez, Bradley S. Epps, Brian D. Farrell, William L. Fash, Luis Fernández-Cifuentes, Jeffry Frieden, Mary M. Gaylord, Merilee Grindle (ex officio), 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 Womack Jr.

Oceanography — Eli Tziperman (chair, on leave fall term), Peter John Huybers, 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, 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.

Undergraduate Committees (noncurricular)

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

Advising and Counseling — Donald Pfister (chair), Inge Ameer (ex officio), Paul Barreira, Anya Bernstein, Steven Bloomfield, Sue Brown, Lawrence Buell, Michael Canfield, Marie Dahleh (ex officio), Thomas Dingman (ex officio), Daniel Donoghue (on leave spring term), Jeanne Follansbee Quinn, Michelle Hacker, David Harrington, Jay Harris, Georgene Herschbach, Laura Johnson, Lee Ann Michelson, James Mancall (ex officio), Jeffrey Miron, Sandra Nadaff, Suzy Nelson, David Pilbeam (ex officio), Monique Rinere (ex officio), Manada Sassanfar, William Wright-Swadel (ex officio), Stuart Shieber, Katherine Stanton, and Greg Tucci.

Arts, Council on The — Julie Buckler (chair), Elizabeth Bergmann, S. Allen Counter Jr., Deborah D. Foster, Jorie Graham, Cathleen McCormick, John C. Megan, Nancy Mitchnik, Robb Moss (on leave spring term), Carol Oja, Robert J. Orchard, Marcus Stern, and John Stewart.

Athletic Sports — Jerry Green (chair), Verena Andermatt Conley, Thomas A. Dingman, William R. Fitzsimmons, Benjamin M. Friedman, Paul Gompers, William A. Graham Jr., Jill M. Hooley, Sean Kelly (on leave 2007-2008), Samuel Martin Kunes, James J. McCarthy, Geoffrey M. Peters, John P. Reardon Jr., Monique Rinere, David S. Rosenthal, and Robert L. Scalise (ex officio).

Education Abroad — Carter J. Eckert (chair), Emmanuel Akyeampong, Sugata Bose, Jorge Dominguez, Grzegorz Ekiert, Brian D. Farrell, Luis Fernández-Cifuentes, William E. Granara, Georgene Herschbach, Robert Lue (ex officio), Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan, James J. McCarthy, Catherine Winnie (ex officio), and William Wright-Swadel.

Public Service — Richard F. Thomas (co-chair), Anya Bernstein (co-chair), Dorothy Austin, Bradley S. Epps, Marshall L. Ganz, Judith H. Kidd, James Kloppenberg, Doris Sommer, and Richard Wilson.

Administrative Committees

Benefits — Gary King (chair).

Bowdoin Prizes, Administration of — James D. Wilkinson (chair), Cassandra Extavour, and Steven Biel.

Commencement Parts — Richard J. Tarrant (chair on leave spring term), Richard F. Thomas (acting chair spring term), Peter J. Gomes, Harry R. Lewis, Jacqueline O’Neill, John P. Reardon Jr., Michael Shinagel, and William Mills Todd, III.

Continuing Education — Barry C. Mazur (chair on leave spring term), Patricia Rowe Chaput, Warren D. Goldfarb (on leave fall term), Nancy L. Maull, Christie McDonald, Gregory Nagy, Steven E. Ozment, Elaine Scarry, and Mark Schiefsky.

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 School 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 — Howard Georgi III (chair), Peter Bol, Nancy Cline, Robert Doyle, Alyssa Goodman, J. Richard Hackman, Craig P. Hunter (on leave 2007-2008), Barry Kane, Thomas Kelly, Gary King, H.T. Kung, Henry Leitner, Lawrence Levine, Harry Lewis (on leave spring term), Robert Lue, Nancy Maull, and Daniel Moriarty.

Library — Robert Darnton (chair), Kathleen M. Coleman (vice-chair), Nancy Cline (ex officio), M. Shahab Ahmed (on leave fall term), Janet Beizer, Ann M. Blair (on leave spring term), James T. Engell (on leave fall term), Mary M. Gaylord, Jennifer Hochschild, Wilt Lukas Idema, Farish A. Jenkins, Lawrence Levine, Stephanie Sandler, Stuart Schieber, and Richard Wrangham.

Pedagogical Improvement — Thomas Kelly (chair), Andrew Biewener, Benjamin M. Friedman, Xiao-Li Meng, Margo I. Seltzer, and Theda Skocpol.

Privacy, Accessibility, and Security of Records — To be announced.

Professional Conduct — Jeffry Frieden (chair), Gary J. Feldman, Philip James Fisher (on leave spring term), Richard Losick, Nancy L. Rosenblum, John H. Shaw, and Gregory L. Verdine.

Science Center, Executive Committee of — To be announced.

Women — Lisa L. Martin (chair on leave spring term), Theda Skocpol (ex officio), Lizabeth Cohen (on leave fall term), Caroline M. Elkins, Rachelle Gaudet, Elena M. Kramer, Lisa McGirr, Katharine Park (on leave fall term), Susan J. Pharr, Mylène Priam, Stephanie Sandler (on leave 2007-2008), Margo I. Seltzer, Susanna Siegel, Mary M. Steedly, and Rebecca Wassarman.

Faculty Research Committees

Faculty Research Support — Michael Smith (chair ex officio), Joyce Chaplin, Deena Giancotti, Peter Marsden, Mark Schiefsky, James Sidanius, Steven Wofsy, and Xaiowei Zhuang.

Research Policy — Steven Wofsy (chair), Susan Athey, Roger W. Brockett, Alfonso Caramazza (ex officio), Gary J. Feldman, Patrick Fitzgerald (ex officio), Jeffry Frieden (ex officio), Dean R. Gallant (ex officio), Farish A. Jenkins Jr., Stephen M. Kosslyn, Daniel E. Lieberman (ex officio), Peter V. Marsden, Paul C. Martin, Nancy L. Maull (ex officio), Andrew P. McMahon, Hongkun Park, Mara Prentiss, and Alexander Schier.

Use of Human Subjects in Research — Alfonso Caramazza (chair), Dean Gallant (ex officio), Matthew Alper, James C. Beck, Evelyn Bonander (community representative), Earl Bracker, Jane B. Calhoun (research officer), Kenneth L. Carson (research officer), John Ellison, Hemamal Jaywardena, Nancy Katz, Sendhil Mullainathan, Mathew Nock, Barbara A. Pan, Elisabeth Parrot (research officer), Emiko Saito (research officer), Joel L. Siner, and Toni Wegner.

* Executive Committee

+ Study of Religion supervises both graduate and undergraduate degree programs, but to avoid double counting, it is listed only under Curricular Committees — Undergraduate Degree Programs.