# Standing Committees by Category # FAS Standing Committees Listed by Category ## 2026–2027 Standing Committee Membership #### **2026–2027 Curricular Committees for Undergraduate Degree Programs** **Chemical and Physical Biology**, Degrees in *. . . oversees the concentration in Chemical and Physical Biology*. Doeke Hekstra *(Chair) (on leave 2026–2027)*, Victoria D’Souza, Rachelle Gaudet, Brian B. Liau, Maxim Prigozhin, and Gregory Tucci **Energy, Climate, and the Environment**, Degrees in *. . . oversees the concentration in Energy, Climate, and the Environment.* Robin Kelsey *(Chair)*, Joyce Chaplin *(on leave spring term)*, Amanda Claybaugh *(ex officio)*, David Cutler *(ex officio)*, David Deming *(ex officio)*, Anne Harrington, Lene Hau, Noel Michele Holbrook, David Johnston *(ex officio)*, Sean D. Kelly *(ex officio)*, David Parkes *(ex officio)*, Ann Pearson, Gillian Beecher Pierce *(ex officio)*, and Elsie Sunderland *(on leave fall term)* **Environmental** **Science and Public Policy**, Concentration in *. . . oversees the concentration in Environmental Science and Public Policy.* Membership information for 2026–2027 is not yet available. **Folklore and Mythology**, Degrees in *. . . oversees the concentration and the secondary field in Folklore and Mythology.* Michael Puett *(Chair)*, Josiah Blackmore, Sarah Craycraft, David Damrosch, Céline Debourse *(fall term only)*, Philip J. Deloria, Daniel Donoghue, David F. Elmer, John T. Hamilton, Gregory Nagy, Joseph Nagy *(on leave spring term)*, Kimberley Patton, Julia Rhyder *(on leave fall term)*, Panagiotis Roilos *(on leave spring term)*, Paul Russell, Martha Selby, Nicholas Watson, and Richard Wolf **History and Literature**, Degrees in . . . *oversees the concentration in History and Literature.* Bruno Carvalho *(Chair)*, Paulina Alberto *(on leave 2026–2027)*, Steven Biel, Jonathan Bolton, Glenda Carpio, Philip J. Deloria, Laura Frahm *(on leave 2026–2027)*, Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof *(spring term only)*, Alison Frank Johnson *(on leave 2026–2027)*, Maya Jasanoff, Ju Yon Kim, Shawon Kinew, Deidre Lynch *(on leave spring term)*, Christopher Pexa, Matthew Saunders, and Kirsten Weld **Neuroscience**, Degrees in . . . *oversees the concentration in Neuroscience.* Jeff Lichtman *(Chair)*, Benjamin de Bivort, Catherine Dulac, Florian Engert, Samuel Gershman, Venkatesh Murthy, Bence Ölveczky, Elizabeth Phelps *(on leave spring term)*, Aravinthan Samuel, Leah Somerville, Naoshige Uchida, and Amanda Whipple **Religion**, Study of . . . *oversees the Ph.D. program in Religion and the concentration in the Comparative Study of Religion.* Catherine Brekus *(Chair)*, Swayam Bagaria *(on leave 2026–2027)*, Giovanni Bazzana, Davíd Carrasco, Benjamin Dunning, Luis Girón Negrón, Mohsen Goudarzi *(on leave 2026–2027)*, Ahmad Greene-Hayes *(on leave fall term)*, Janet Gyatso *(on leave spring term)*, David Holland, Nikki Hoskins *(on leave 2026–2027)*, Tracey Hucks, Courtney Bickel Lamberth, David Lamberth, Shaul Magid, Kimberley Patton, Irene Peirano Garrison, Felipe Pereda *(on leave 2026–2027)*, Michael Puett, Annette Yoshiko Reed, James Robson, Panagiotis Roilos *(on leave spring term)*, Michelle C. Sanchez, Martha Selby, Terenjit Sevea, Charles Stang, David Stern *(on leave 2026–2027)*, D. Andrew Teeter *(on leave 2026–2027)*, Nicholas Watson, Raúl Zegarra *(on leave 2026–2027)*, and Malika Zeghal **Social** **Studies**, Degrees in . . . *oversees the concentration in Social Studies.* Gabriella Coleman *(Chair)*, Marc Aidinoff, David Armitage *(on leave 2026–2027)*, Eric Beerbohm *(on leave spring term)*, Christina Ciocca Eller *(on leave 2026–2027)*, Philip J. Deloria, Katrina Forrester *(on leave fall term)*, Shterna Friedman, David Newman Glovsky *(on leave 2026–2027)*, Peter E. Gordon, Peter A. Hall *(on leave 2026–2027)*, Jonathan Hansen, Steven Levitsky *(on leave spring term)*, Jessica M. Marglin, Jamie Martin, Ryo Morimoto, Michael Puett, Sarah Richardson *(on leave 2026–2027)*, Chris Rominger, Michael Rosen, Emma Rothschild *(on leave 2026–2027)*, Anna Russo, Tommie Shelby, Doris Sommer *(on leave spring term)*, Joel Suarez *(on leave fall term)*, Brandon Terry, Adaner Usmani *(on leave 2026–2027)*, Moira Weigel *(on leave 2026–2027)*, and Malika Zeghal **Special** **Concentrations** . . . *approves and recommends candidates for the A.B. degree, with and without honors, in Special Concentrations for students whose plans of study fall outside the purview of any other of the College’s regular concentrations.* Membership information for 2026–2027 is not yet available. **Theater, Dance, and Media** . . . *oversees the concentration and the secondary field in Theater, Dance, and Media.* Derek Miller *(Chair)*, Tania Bruguera *(on leave 2026–2027)*, Daria Khitrova, David Levine, Sam Marks, Ryan McKittrick *(ex officio)*, Lisa Parkes, Parimal G. Patil, Diane Paulus *(ex officio)*, Martin Puchner, Alexander Rehding, Matthew Saunders, James Stanley *(ex officio)*, Stew Stewart, Kate van Orden, and Naomi Weiss **Women, Gender, and Sexuality**, Degrees in Studies of . . . *oversees the concentration and the Ph.D. secondary field in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality.* Membership information for 2026–2027 is not yet available. #### **2026–2027 Curricular Committees for Graduate Degree Programs** **American** **Studies**, Higher Degrees in . . . *administers the graduate program leading to the Ph.D. degree in its field.* Robin Bernstein *(Chair)*, Marc Aidinoff, George Aumoithe *(on leave 2026–2027)*, Sven Beckert *(on leave 2026–2027)*, Catherine Brekus, Philip J. Deloria, Myisha Eatmon, Joseph Gone, Ahmad Greene-Hayes *(on leave fall term)*, Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof *(on leave fall term)*, Ju Yon Kim, Anna Lvovsky *(on leave fall term)*, Jesse McCarthy, Daniel McKanan, Derek Miller, Carol Oja *(on leave 2026–2027)*, Imani Perry, Christopher Pexa, Julie A. Reuben, Doris Sommer *(on leave spring term)*, Brandon Terry, Alejandra Vela Martínez, and Anna Wilson *(on leave 2026–2027)* **Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning**, Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in . . . *administers the graduate program leading to the Ph.D. degree in its fields.* Antoine Picon *(Chair)*, Eve Blau, Joyce Chaplin *(on leave spring term)*, Edward Eigen, Peter Galison, K. Michael Hays, Sheila Jasanoff, David Joselit, Ali Malkawi, Erika Naginski, Rachel Nicole Weber, and Sarah Whiting **Biophysics**, Higher Degrees in . . . *administers the graduate program for the Ph.D. in Biophysics.* Martha Bulyk *(Co-Chair)*, Rachelle Gaudet *(Co-Chair)*, Stephen Blacklow, Michael Desai, Florian Engert, Andrew Kruse, Joseph Loparo, Sua Myong, Bruce Rosen, Aravinthan Samuel, and Xiaowei Zhuang **Biotechnology: Life Sciences**, S.M. Degree in . . . *administers the master’s degree component of the M.S./M.B.A. Biotechnology: Life Sciences program.* Amitabh Chandra *(Co-Chair)*, Lee Rubin *(Co-Chair)*, Leemore Dafny, Susan Dymecki, Robert Huckman, and Tsedal Neeley **Business** **Studies**, Higher Degrees in . . . *supervises joint degrees between the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Harvard Business School.* Membership information for 2026–2027 is not yet available. - **Business Administration**, Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in . . . *is a subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Higher Degrees in Business Studies that administers the joint Ph.D. program in Business Administration.* - Membership information for 2026–2027 is not yet available. - **Business** **Economics**, Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in . . . *is a subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Higher Degrees in Business Studies that administers the joint Ph.D. program in Business Economics.* - Membership information for 2026–2027 is not yet available. - **Organizational** **Behavior**, Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in . . . *is a subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Higher Degrees in Business Studies that administers the joint Ph.D. program in Organizational Behavior.* - Jeffrey Polzer *(Chair)*, Jason Beckfield *(ex officio)*, Frank Dobbin, Michael Norton, Lakshmi Ramarajan, and Aditya Sunderam *(ex officio)* **Chemical** **Biology**, Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in . . . *administers the graduate program leading to the Ph.D. degree in its field.* Membership information for 2026–2027 is not yet available. **Chemical** **Physics**, Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in . . . *administers the graduate program leading to the Ph.D. degree in its field.* Adam Cohen *(Chair)*, Efthimios Kaxiras *(on leave spring term)*, Joonho Lee, David R. Nelson, Kang-Kuen Ni, Eugene Shakhnovich *(on leave fall term)*, Suyang Xu, and Xiaowei Zhuang **Data** **Science**, S.M. Degree in . . . *administers the master’s program leading to the S.M. degree in Data Science and oversees the secondary field in Data Science for Ph.D. students.* Membership information for 2026–2027 is not yet available. **Education**, Higher Degrees in . . . *administers the Ph.D. program in Education and oversees the undergraduate secondary field in Educational Studies.* Membership information for 2026–2027 is not yet available. **Health** **Policy** . . . *administers the Ph.D. program in Health Policy.* Meredith Rosenthal *(Chair)*, Leila Agha, Allan Brandt, Daniel Carpenter, Alex Chan, Amitabh Chandra, Michael Chernew, Jessica Cohen, Megan B. Cole Brahim, Benjamin Lê Cook, David Cutler, Leemore Dafny, Amy Edmondson, Arnold Epstein, Jose Francisco Figueroa, Laura Garabedian, Susanne Goldie, David Grabowski, James Hammitt, John Hsu, Robert Huckman, Haiden Huskamp, Anupam Jena, David S. Jones, Nancy Keating, Michaela June Kerrissey, Salmaan Keshavjee, Jane J. Kim *(on leave fall term)*, Gary King, Bruce Landon, Mary Beth Landrum, Alex Luedtke, Nicole Maestas, Luca Maini, Margaret McConnell, Alex McDowell, Alecia J. McGregor, Adrianna McIntyre, Barbara McNeil, Michael McWilliams, Ellen Meara, Nicolas Menzies, Ari Ne’eman, Sharon-Lise Normand, Ankur Pandya, Mark Shepard, Anna Sinaiko, Ben Sommers, Zirui Song, Stéphane Verguet, Zachary Ward, Davene R. Wright, Jennifer M. Yeh, Richard Zeckhauser, and José R. Zubizarreta **History and East Asian Languages**, Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in . . . *administers the Ph.D. program in History and East Asian Languages.* Michael Puett *(Chair)*, Mark C. Elliott, Arunabh Ghosh, David L. Howell, Sun Joo Kim, Shigehisa Kuriyama *(on leave 2026–2027)*, Ian J. Miller *(on leave 2026–2027)*, Uyen T. Nguyen, Victor Seow, and Michael Szonyi **Inner Asian and Altaic Studies**. . . *administers the Ph.D. program in Inner Asian and Altaic Studies.* Leonard van der Kuijp *(Chair)*, Mark C. Elliott, Rowan Flad, Janet Gyatso *(on leave spring term)*, Cemal Kafadar, Jinah Kim, Terry Martin, Michael Puett, Eugene Y. Wang, and Richard Wolf **Medical** **Sciences**, Higher Degrees in . . . *serves as an executive decision-making body, discussing and approving policy changes or issues of great importance within the Division of Medical Sciences.* Rosalind Segal *(Chair)*, John Assad, Stephen Blacklow, Chinfei Chen, Monica Colaiacovo, Maha Farhat, Wendy Garrett, Gwenaelle Geleoc, Benjamin Gewurz, David Ginty, Wade Harper, Ann Hochschild, Galit Lahav, Peter J. Park, Shiv Pillai, Aaron Schmidt, Arlene Sharpe, David Van Vactor, and Amy Wagers **Middle** **Eastern** **Studies** . . . *administers the A.M. Regional Studies program and the joint Ph.D. programs in Middle Eastern Studies with Anthropology, History, and History of Art and Architecture.* Salmaan Keshavjee *(Chair)*, Mark C. Elliott, Luis Girón Negrón, Cemal Kafadar, Peter Der Manuelian, Christina Maranci, Gülru Necipoğlu-Kafadar, Derek Penslar *(spring term only)*, and David Roxburgh **Political Economy and Government**, Higher Degrees in . . . *administers the Ph.D. program in Political Economy and Government.* Robert Stavins *(Chair)*, Edward Glaeser, Alisha Holland *(on leave 2026–2027)*, and James Snyder **Public** **Health** **Sciences**, Higher Degrees in . . . *oversees the Ph.D. programs in public health sciences, which are joint degrees between the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the School of Public Health.* Membership information for 2026–2027 is not yet available. - **Biological Sciences in Public Health**, Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in . . . *is a subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Higher Degrees in Public Health Sciences that administers the joint Ph.D. program in Biological Sciences in Public Health.* - Flaminia Catteruccia *(Chair)*, Jorge E. Chavarro *(ex officio)*, Sarah Fortune, Brendan Manning, Zachary D. Nagel, and Dyann F. Wirth - **Biostatistics**, Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in . . . *is a subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Higher Degrees in Public Health Sciences that administers the joint Ph.D. program in Biostatistics.* - Sebastien Haneuse *(Chair)*, Jorge E. Chavarro *(ex officio)*, Brent Coull, Rajarshi Mukherjee, and Sharon-Lise Normand - **Population Health Sciences**, Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in . . . *is a subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Higher Degrees in Public Health Sciences that administers the joint Ph.D. program in Population Health Sciences.* - Eric Rimm *(Chair)*, Deborah Blacker, Marcia Castro, Jorge E. Chavarro *(ex officio)*, David Cutler, Karen Emmons, Francine Laden, and Lorelei Mucci **Public** **Policy**, Higher Degrees in . . . *administers the Ph.D. program in Public Policy.* Robert Stavins *(Chair)*, Joseph Aldy, Christopher Avery, Matthew Baum, Justin de Benedictis-Kessner, Edward Glaeser, Sharad Goel, Rema Hanna, Asim Khwaja, Eliana La Ferrara, Jennifer Lerner, Fredrik Logevall, Julia Minson, Rana Mitter, Ishan Nath, Benjamin Hayman Schneer, Mark Shepard, and Richard Zeckhauser **Quantum Science and Engineering**, Higher Degrees in . . . *administers the Ph.D. program in Quantum Science and Engineering.* John Doyle *(Co-Chair) (on leave spring term)*, Evelyn Hu *(Co-Chair)*, Anurag Anshu, Marko Lončar, and Kang-Kuen Ni **Regional Studies–East Asia**, A.M. Degree in . . . *administers the A.M. program in Regional Studies–East Asia.* David L. Howell *(Chair)*, Christina Davis, Arunabh Ghosh, Thomas P. Kelly, Yukio Lippit, Meg Rithmire, James Robson, and Moira Weigel *(on leave 2026–2027)* **Regional Studies–Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia**, A.M. Degree in . . . *administers the A.M. program in Regional Studies–Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia.* Grzegorz Ekiert *(Chair)*, Eve Blau, Jonathan Bolton, Steven Clancy, Timothy Colton, Daria Khitrova, Aleksandra Kremer, Terry Martin, Kelly A. O’Neill, and Serhii Plokhii **Religion**, Study of . . . *oversees the Ph.D. program in Religion and the concentration in the Comparative Study of Religion.* Catherine Brekus *(Chair)*, Swayam Bagaria *(on leave 2026–2027)*, Giovanni Bazzana, Davíd Carrasco, Benjamin Dunning, Luis Girón Negrón, Mohsen Goudarzi *(on leave 2026–2027)*, Ahmad Greene-Hayes *(on leave fall term)*, Janet Gyatso *(on leave spring term)*, David Holland, Nikki Hoskins *(on leave 2026–2027)*, Tracey Hucks, Courtney Bickel Lamberth, David Lamberth, Shaul Magid, Kimberley Patton, Irene Peirano Garrison, Felipe Pereda *(on leave 2026–2027)*, Michael Puett, Annette Yoshiko Reed, James Robson, Panagiotis Roilos *(on leave spring term)*, Michelle C. Sanchez, Martha Selby, Terenjit Sevea, Charles Stang, David Stern *(on leave 2026–2027)*, D. Andrew Teeter *(on leave 2026–2027)*, Nicholas Watson, Raúl Zegarra *(on leave 2026–2027)*, and Malika Zeghal **Social** **Policy**, Higher Degrees in . . . *administers the Ph.D. program in Social Policy.* Deirdre Bloome *(Chair)*, Desmond Ang, Daniel Carpenter, Christina Ciocca Eller *(on leave 2026–2027)*, Justin de Benedictis-Kessner, Jennifer Hochschild, Taeku Lee, Elizabeth Linos, David Pedulla, and Daniel Schneider *(on leave 2026–2027)* **Systems, Synthetic, and Quantitative Biology**, Higher Degrees in . . . *administers the Ph.D. program in Systems, Synthetic, and Quantitative Biology.* Michael Desai *(Co-Chair)*, Allon Klein *(Co-Chair)*, Cassandra Extavour, Ethan Garner, Alon Oyler-Yaniv, Jennifer Oyler-Yaniv, Maxim Prigozhin, and Michael Springer #### **2026–2027 Instructional Program Committees** **Ethnicity, Migration, Rights** . . . *focuses on the areas of ethnicity, migration, indigeneity, and human rights to provide curricular and co-curricular enrichment for Harvard College students.* Bruno Carvalho *(Interim Chair)*, Eram Alam *(on leave 2026–2027)*, Homi Bhabha, Glenda Carpio, Philip J. Deloria, Adriana Gutiérrez, Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof *(spring term only)*, Lauren Kaminsky, Ju Yon Kim, Taeku Lee, Matthew Liebmann, Annette Lienau, Caroline Light, Alejandro L. Madrid, Gabrielle Oliveira, María Luisa Parra, Christopher Pexa, Malavika Reddy, Mariano Siskind, Gabriela Soto Laveaga, and Philip Torrey **First-Year** **Seminars** . . . *oversees the First-Year Seminar Program.* Charles C. Davis *(Chair)*, Jennifer Hochschild, Ofrit Liviatan *(ex officio)*, Erez Manela, Brendan Meade, Jeffrey Miron, Gillian Beecher Pierce *(ex officio)*, Panagiotis Roilos *(on leave spring term)*, and Stephanie Sandler **General** **Education** . . . *oversees the General Education program.* Fiery Cushman *(Co-Chair)*, Brendan Meade *(Co-Chair)*, Joyce Chaplin *(fall term only)*, Christina Davis, John Huth, Gillian Beecher Pierce *(ex officio)*, Michael Puett, Matthew Saunders, and Gabriela Soto Laveaga *(spring term only)* **Global Health and Health Policy** . . . *oversees the secondary field in Global Health and Health Policy.* David Cutler *(Chair)*, Anne Becker, Allan Brandt, Jessica Cohen, Susanne Goldie, Evelynn Hammonds, Daniel Hartl, Louise Ivers, Anupam Jena, David S. Jones, Salmaan Keshavjee, Erez Manela, John Mugane, Meredith Rosenthal, Doris Sommer *(on leave spring term)*, S. V. Subramanian, Karen Thornber, and David R. Williams *(on leave fall term)* **Medieval** **Studies** . . . *oversees secondary fields for undergraduates and Ph.D. students and promotes and coordinates work in medieval subjects throughout the University.* Dimiter Angelov *(Chair)*, Josiah Blackmore, Suzanne Blier, Lorenzo Bondioli, Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja, Thomas B. F. Cummins *(ex officio)*, Daniel Donoghue, Khaled El-Rouayheb, Sean Gilsdorf *(ex officio)*, Luis Girón Negrón, Jeffrey F. Hamburger *(fall term only)*, Jinah Kim, Christina Maranci, Hannah Marcus, Alina Payne *(ex officio)*, Panagiotis Roilos *(fall term only)*, David Roxburgh, Paul Russell, Daniel Smail, Charles Stang, Xiaofei Tian, and Nicholas Watson **Mind, Brain, and Behavior** . . . *coordinates the teaching of neuroscience and related fields among Harvard’s departments.* Elizabeth Phelps *(Chair) (on leave spring term)*, Elika Bergelson, Gennaro Chierchia, Kathryn Davidson *(fall term only)*, Benjamin de Bivort, Yilun Du, Kathryn Franich, Samuel Gershman, Erin Hecht, Steven E. Hyman, Talia Konkle, Christopher Kuzawa, Jeff Lichtman, Jeffrey Macklis, Venkatesh Murthy, Charles Nelson, Bence Ölveczky, David Silbersweig, Alison Simmons, Ashley J. Thomas, Naoshige Uchida, Tomer Ullman *(on leave fall term)*, Lisa M. Wong, and Marinka Zitnik **Ukrainian** **Studies** . . . *facilitates the systematic study of Ukrainian subjects and coordinates work in these fields undertaken in the various departments of the University.* Terry Martin *(Chair)*, Steven Clancy, Timothy Colton, Grzegorz Ekiert, Alison Frank Johnson *(on leave 2026–2027)*, Serhii Plokhii, and Bohdan Tokarskyi *(on leave fall term)* #### **2026–2027 Interdisciplinary Coordinating Committees** **Archaeology** . . . *coordinates the teaching of archaeology among Harvard’s departments.* Christina Warinner *(Chair)*, Margaret Andrews, Suzanne Blier, Joyce Chaplin *(on leave spring term)*, Amy Elizabeth Clark, Kathleen M. Coleman, Thomas B. F. Cummins, Andrew Danielson *(on leave 2026–2027)*, Emma Dench, Susanne Ebbinghaus, Seth Estrin, William Fash, Rowan Flad, Paul Kosmin *(on leave fall term)*, Matthew Liebmann, Diana Loren, Peter Der Manuelian, Michael McCormick *(on leave 2026–2027)*, Jerry Mitrovica *(on leave fall term)*, Shayla Monroe *(on leave spring term)*, Ann Pearson, Jane Pickering, Gabriel Pizzorno, Jeremy Rau, Julia Rhyder *(on leave fall term)*, David Roxburgh, Daniel Smail, Irene Soto Marín *(on leave 2026–2027)*, Adrian Stähli, Eugene Y. Wang, and Naomi Weiss **European** **Studies** . . . *oversees the Center for European Studies and the secondary field in European History, Politics, and Societies.* Daniel Ziblatt *(Chair) (on leave 2026–2027)*, Rawi Abdelal, Stephen Ansolabehere, Sven Beckert *(on leave 2026–2027)*, Jonathan Bolton, Peter J. Burgard, Daniel Carpenter, Grzegorz Ekiert, Alison Frank Johnson *(on leave 2026–2027)*, Peter E. Gordon, Peter A. Hall *(on leave 2026–2027)*, Torben Iversen, Maya Jasanoff, Michèle Lamont, Mary Lewis, Christoph Mikulaschek, Derek Penslar *(on leave fall term)*, Serhii Plokhii, Vincent Pons, Pia Raffler, Mathias Risse, Dante Roscini, and David Spreen **Latin American and Iberian Studies** . . . *oversees the certificates awarded by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.* Steven Levitsky *(Chair) (on leave spring term)*, Davíd Carrasco, Bruno Carvalho, Alejandro de la Fuente *(on leave spring term)*, Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof *(on leave fall term)*, Alisha Holland *(on leave 2026–2027)*, Mariano Siskind, Doris Sommer *(on leave spring term)*, Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Jocelyn Viterna, and Kirsten Weld **Oceanography** . . . *advises on issues of cross-departmental importance and discusses problems of mutual interest within the departments whose fields encompass the basic scientific and mathematical disciplines fundamental to oceanographic study.* Eli Tziperman *(Chair)*, Peter Huybers, Charles Langmuir, Daniel Schrag, and Fiamma Straneo #### **2026–2027 Research Committee** **Research** **Policy** . . . *advises the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on matters of research policy and administration, specifically those regarding institutional grants or program grants cutting across departmental lines and involving large resources.* Membership information for 2026–2027 is not yet available. #### **2026–2027 Non-Curricular Undergraduate Committees** **Admissions and Financial Aid in Harvard College** . . . *determines admissions and financial aid policy.* William Fitzsimmons *(Chair)*, Boaz Barak, Stephanie Burt, Melissa Dell, Thomas Dunne, Melissa Franklin *(on leave spring term)*, Joseph D. Harris, Peter Huybers, Maya Jasanoff, Thomas Jehn, Jake Kaufmann *(ex officio)*, Samuel Kou, Boris Kozinsky *(on leave spring term)*, Samuel Kunes, Ruth Lingford *(on leave spring term)*, Erin McDermott, Xiao-Li Meng, Michael Mitzenmacher, Masahiro Morii *(on leave 2026–2027)*, Giang Nguyen, Sharad Ramanathan, Anne Shreffler, Joy St. John *(ex officio)*, Clifford Taubes, James Waldo, Minlan Yu, and Xiaowei Zhuang **Arts**, Council on the . . . *develops strategies and/or programs in support of arts-related issues and provides counsel to the Office for the Arts at Harvard on a variety of programmatic and administrative initiatives.* Membership information for 2026–2027 is not yet available. **Athletics** . . . *provides general oversight of operations for the Faculty’s athletic programs.* David F. Elmer *(Chair)*, Amanda Claybaugh, William Fitzsimmons, Alison Frank Johnson *(on leave 2026–2027)*, Mark Glickman, David Newman Glovsky *(on leave 2026–2027)*, Christopher P. Hamblin, Jennifer Hoffman *(on leave spring term)*, Lauren Kaminsky, Erin McDermott *(ex officio)*, Monique Roy, and Michael D. Smith #### **2026–2027 Administrative Committees** **Commencement** **Parts** . . . *chooses the Undergraduate Latin, Undergraduate English, and Graduate English speakers at Commencement and coaches their oratory skills.* Membership information for 2026–2027 is not yet available. **Continuing** **Education** . . . *oversees the formation and implementation of educational policy governing continuing education in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.* Peter Girguis *(Chair)*, Michael Desai, Erez Manela, Lisa Klein Pearo *(ex officio)*, Gillian Beecher Pierce, Karen Thornber, and Dustin Tingley *(ex officio)* **General Scholarships and the Sheldon Fund** . . . *oversees the administration of funds that have been assigned to the committee without specific assignment by the donor to one particular school.* The Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences *(Chair)*; the Deans of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and of 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** . . . *advises the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on strategic planning, investments, policies, annual project work, and the needs of the academic enterprise.* Membership information for 2026–2027 is not yet available. **Professional** **Conduct** . . . *advises the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and individual faculty members on problems involving conflicts of interest and commitment. The committee is also responsible for a first review of allegations of such matters as plagiarism or falsification of data by a faculty member or research staff.* John Wakeley *(Chair)*, Michael P. Brenner, Cora Dvorkin *(on leave 2026–2027)*, Douglas Finkbeiner, Donhee Ham, Venkatesh Murthy, Daniel Needleman, and Yun Zhang **Public** **Service** . . . *oversees all undergraduate public service and volunteer programs authorized by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.* Membership information for 2026–2027 is not yet available. **Undergraduate Educational Policy** . . . *is the general oversight body for the undergraduate curriculum.* Membership information for 2026–2027 is not yet available. **Women** . . . *monitors the status of women and gender minorities at all levels of the Faculty of Arts and Sciecnes to ensure that they have the freedom, security, respect, and resources to pursue opportunities for their greatest personal, professional, and scholarly development.* Membership information for 2026–2027 is not yet available.