Standing Committees A-Z

FAS Standing Committees Listed Alphabetically

2025–2026 Standing Committee Membership


Admissions and Financial Aid in Harvard College (Non-Curricular Undergraduate Committee) . . . determines admissions and financial aid policy.

William Fitzsimmons (Chair), Ali Asani (on leave 2025–2026), Boaz Barak, Stephanie Burt, Melissa Dell, Thomas Dunne, Melissa Franklin, Joseph D. Harris, Peter Huybers, Maya Jasanoff (on leave 2025–2026), Thomas Jehn, Jake Kaufmann (ex officio), Samuel Kou (on leave 2025–2026), Samuel Kunes (on leave 2025–2026), Jennifer A. Lewis, Ruth Lingford, Erin McDermott, Xiao-Li Meng (on leave 2025–2026), Michael Mitzenmacher (on leave 2025–2026), Masahiro Morii, Eric Nelson, Giang Nguyen, Sharad Ramanathan, Anne Shreffler (spring term only), Joy St. John (ex officio), Clifford Taubes, James Waldo, Minlan Yu (on leave 2025–2026), and Xiaowei Zhuang

American Studies, Higher Degrees in (Graduate Curricular Committee) . . . administers the graduate program leading to the Ph.D. degree in its field.

Philip J. Deloria (Chair), George Aumoithe, Sven Beckert, Robin Bernstein (on leave 2025–2026), Ann Braude, Catherine Brekus (on leave 2025–2026), Christine Desan, Myisha Eatmon, Joseph Gone, Ahmad Greene-Hayes, Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, Terrence Johnson, Ju Yon Kim, Anna Lvovsky, Jesse McCarthy (on leave fall term), Daniel McKanan, Derek Miller (on leave fall term), Carol Oja, Christopher Pexa (on leave 2025–2026), Julie A. Reuben, Doris Sommer, Brandon Terry, Alejandra Vela Martínez (on leave spring term), and Anna Wilson

Archaeology (Interdisciplinary Coordinating Committee) . . . coordinates the teaching of archaeology among Harvard’s departments.

Christina Warinner (Chair), Margaret Andrews, Suzanne Blier (on leave 2025–2026), Amy Elizabeth Clark, Andrew Danielson, Susanne Ebbinghaus, William Fash, Rowan Flad, Paul Kosmin (on leave spring term), Matthew Liebmann (on leave 2025–2026), Diana Loren, Peter Der Manuelian, Michael McCormick, Shayla Monroe, Jane Pickering, Gabriel Pizzorno, Daniel Smail, Adrian Staehli, and Eugene Y. Wang

Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning, Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in (Graduate Curricular Committee) . . . administers the graduate program leading to the Ph.D. degree in its fields.

Antoine Picon (Chair), Eve Blau, Joyce Chaplin, Diane Davis, Edward Eigen, Peter Galison (on leave fall term), Michael K. Hays, Sheila Jasanoff, Ali Malkawi, Erika Naginski, Rachel Nicole Weber, and Sarah Whiting

Arts, Council on the (Non-Curricular Undergraduate Committee) . . . 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.

Sean D. Kelly (Chair), Remo Airaldi, Alicia Anstead, Daniel Chong, Fiona Coffey, Angélica Durrell, Elizabeth Epsen, Phillip Howze, Ruth Lingford, Laura Quinton, Matthew Saunders, Yosvany Terry, and Laura van den Berg

Athletics (Non-Curricular Undergraduate Committee) . . . provides general oversight of operations for the Faculty’s athletic programs.

Salmaan Keshavjee (Chair), Amanda Claybaugh, David F. Elmer, Amin Farokhrani, William Fitzsimmons, Alison Frank Johnson, Mark Glickman, David Newman Glovsky, Christopher P. Hamblin, Jennifer Hoffman, Erin McDermott (ex officio), Monique Roy, and Michael D. Smith (on leave 2025–2026)

Biophysics, Higher Degrees in (Graduate Curricular Committee) . . . administers the graduate program for the Ph.D. in Biophysics.

Martha Bulyk (Co-Chair), Rachelle Gaudet (Co-Chair), Stephen Blacklow, George Church, Michael Desai, Gabriel Kreiman, Andrew Kruse, Joseph Loparo, Sua Myong, Bruce Rosen, Aravinthan Samuel, and Xiaowei Zhuang

Biotechnology: Life Sciences, S.M. Degree in (Graduate Curricular Committee) . . . administers the master’s degree component of the M.S./M.B.A. Biotechnology: Life Sciences program.

Amitabh Chandra (Co-Chair), Mark Fishman (Co-Chair), Leemore Dafny, Susan Dymecki, Robert Huckman, and Lee Rubin

Business Studies, Higher Degrees in (Graduate Curricular Committee) . . . supervises joint degrees between the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Harvard Business School.

Dennis Yao (Chair), Eva Ascarza, Shai Bernstein, Katherine Coffman, Chiara Farronato, Samuel Hanson, Jonas Heese, Tarun Khanna, Rakesh Khurana, Robin S. Lee, Jeffrey Miron, Antonio Moreno, Michael Norton, David Pedulla (on leave 2025–2026), Jeffrey Polzer, Matthew Rabin, Lakshmi Ramarajan, Jesse M. Shapiro, Aditya Sunderam, Charles C.Y. Wang, Shunyuan Zhang, Feng Zhu, and Tiona Zuzul

  •  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.
    • Dennis Yao (Chair), Eva Ascarza, Jonas Heese, Tarun Khanna, Rakesh Khurana, Antonio Moreno, Charles C.Y. Wang, Shunyuan Zhang, Feng Zhu, and Tiona Zuzul
  • 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.
    • Aditya Sunderam (Chair), Shai Bernstein, Katherine Coffman, Chiara Farronato, Samuel Hanson, Robin S. Lee, Jeffrey Miron (ex officio), Matthew Rabin, Jesse M. Shapiro, and Dennis Yao (ex officio)
  • 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), Michael Norton, David Pedulla (ex officio) (on leave 2025–2026), Lakshmi Ramarajan, and Dennis Yao (ex officio)

Chemical and Physical Biology, Degrees in (Undergraduate Curricular Committee) . . . oversees the concentration in Chemical and Physical Biology.

Doeke Hekstra (Chair), Victoria D’Souza, Brian B. Liau, Maxim Prigozhin (on leave fall term), and Gregory Tucci

Chemical Biology, Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in (Graduate Curricular Committee) . . . administers the graduate program leading to the Ph.D. degree in its field.

Emily Balskus (Co-Chair), Philip A. Cole (Co-Chair), Sara Buhrlage, Sloan Devlin, Stephen Haggarty, Brian B. Liau, David R. Liu, Suzanne Walker, and Christina Woo

Chemical Physics, Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in (Graduate Curricular Committee) . . . administers the graduate program leading to the Ph.D. degree in its field.

Hongkun Park (Chair), Adam Cohen (on leave 2025–2026), Efthimios Kaxiras (on leave spring term), Joonho Lee, David R. Nelson, Kang-Kuen Ni, Eugene Shakhnovich, Suyang Xu, and Xiaowei Zhuang

Commencement Parts (Administrative Committee) . . . chooses the Undergraduate Latin, Undergraduate English, and Graduate English speakers at Commencement and coaches their oratory skills.

Amanda Claybaugh (Chair), David Ager, Erika Bailey, Getzel Davis, Benjamin M. Friedman, Robin Glover, Rachel Love, Timothy Patrick McCarthy, Katherine O’Dair, and Mark Wu

Continuing Education (Administrative Committee) . . . oversees the formation and implementation of educational policy governing continuing education in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Peter Girguis (Chair), Davíd Carrasco, Michael Desai, Sun Joo Kim, Lisa Klein Pearo (ex officio), Gillian Beecher Pierce, Karen Thornber, and Dustin Tingley (ex officio)

Data Science, S.M. Degree in (Graduate Curricular Committee) . . . 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.

Finale Doshi-Velez (Co-Chair) (on leave fall term), Mark Glickman (Co-Chair), Alireza Akhondi-Asl, Nada Amin, Joseph K. Blitzstein, Hao Deng, Hossein Estiri, Edward Kohler (on leave spring term), Cengiz Pehlevan, Pavlos Protopapas (ex officio), Benjamin Rader, Kevin Rader, Vijay Janapa Reddi, Stuart Shieber (ex officio), Mengyu Wang, Jonghye Woo, Heng Yang, and Jeremy Yang (on leave 2025–2026)

Education, Higher Degrees in (Graduate Curricular Committee) . . . administers the Ph.D. program in Education and oversees the undergraduate secondary field in Educational Studies.

Luke Miratrix (Chair), Jarvis Givens (spring term only), Nancy Hill, Rakesh Khurana, Gabrielle Oliveira (fall term only), Julie A. Reuben, Gina Schouten (on leave spring term), and Eric S. Taylor

Environmental Science and Public Policy, Concentration in (Undergraduate Curricular Committee) . . . oversees the concentration in Environmental Science and Public Policy.

Paul Moorcroft (Chair, fall term) (on leave spring term), Stephen Ansolabehere (Chair, spring term), Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Andrew Davies (fall term only), Christopher Golden, Noel Michele Holbrook (on leave 2025–2026), Peter Huybers, Sheila Jasanoff, Marianna Linz (on leave spring term), Kaighin McColl, Michael McElroy (fall term only), Forest Reinhardt, Wolfram Schlenker, Daniel Schrag (on leave 2025–2026), Robert Stavins, James Stock, Elsie Sunderland (on leave spring term), Benton Taylor, Charles Taylor, Dustin Tingley, and Steven Wofsy

Ethnicity, Migration, Rights (Instructional Program Committee) . . . focuses on the areas of ethnicity, migration, indigeneity, and human rights to provide curricular and co-curricular enrichment for Harvard College students.

Raquel Vega-Durán (Chair), Eram Alam, Glenda Carpio, Bruno Carvalho (on leave 2025–2026), Philip J. Deloria, Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, Lauren Kaminsky, Ju Yon Kim, Erika Lee, Taeku Lee, Matthew Liebmann (on leave 2025–2026), Annette Lienau (on leave 2025–2026), Caroline Light, Ellis Monk, María Luisa Parra, Christopher Pexa (on leave 2025–2026), Malavika Reddy, Carola Suarez-Orozco, and Philip Torrey

European Studies (Interdisciplinary Coordinating Committee) . . . oversees the Center for European Studies and the secondary field in European History, Politics, and Societies.

Daniel Ziblatt (Chair), Rawi Abdelal, Stephen Ansolabehere, Sven Beckert, Jonathan Bolton, Peter J. Burgard, Daniel Carpenter, Grzegorz Ekiert, Alison Frank Johnson, Peter E. Gordon, Peter A. Hall, Torben Iversen, Maya Jasanoff (on leave 2025–2026), Michèle Lamont, Mary D. Lewis, Christoph Mikulaschek (on leave fall term), Derek Penslar (on leave spring term), Serhii Plokhii (on leave fall term), Vincent Pons, Pia Raffler, Mathias Risse, Dante Roscini, and David Spree

First-Year Seminars (Instructional Program Committee) . . . oversees the First-Year Seminar Program.

John Kovac (Chair), Charles C. Davis, Jennifer Hochschild, Annabel Kim, Ofrit Liviatan (ex officio), Brendan Meade (on leave spring term), Jeffrey Miron, Gillian Beecher Pierce (ex officio), and Panagiotis Roilos

Folklore and Mythology, Degrees in (Undergraduate Curricular Committee) . . . oversees the concentration and the secondary field in Folklore and Mythology.

Michael Puett (Chair), Ali Asani (on leave 2025–2026), Josiah Blackmore, Sarah Craycraft, David Damrosch, Céline Debourse (on leave 2025–2026), Philip J. Deloria, Daniel Donoghue (on leave fall term), David F. Elmer, John T. Hamilton, Gregory Nagy, Joseph Nagy, Kimberley Patton, Julia Rhyder, Panagiotis Roilos, Martha Selby, David Stern, Natasha Sumner, Nicholas Watson, and Richard Wolf

General Education (Instructional Program Committee) . . . oversees the General Education program.

Fiery Cushman (Co-Chair), Jason Ur (Co-Chair), Joyce Chaplin, Philippe Cluzel (fall term only), John Huth, Salmaan Keshavjee, Gillian Beecher Pierce (ex officio), Michael Puett, Jennifer Roberts, and Matthew Saunders

General Scholarships and the Sheldon Fund (Administrative Committee) . . . 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

Global Health and Health Policy (Instructional Program Committee) . . . oversees the secondary field in Global Health and Health Policy.

David Cutler (Chair), Anne Becker, Allan Brandt, Colleen Cavanaugh (on leave spring term), Jessica Cohen, Susanne Goldie, Evelynn Hammonds, Daniel Hartl, Louise Ivers, Anupam Jena, David S. Jones (on leave 2025–2026), Salmaan Keshavjee, Erez Manela, John Mugane, Kari C. Nadeau, Meredith Rosenthal, Doris Sommer, S. V. Subramanian, Karen Thornber, and David R. Williams

Health Policy (Graduate Curricular Committee) . . . administers the Ph.D. program in Health Policy.

Meredith Rosenthal (Chair), Leila Agha, Allan Brandt, Daniel Carpenter, Alex Chan, Amitabh Chandra, Michael Chernew, Glenn Cohen, Jessica Cohen, 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 (on leave 2025–2026), Nancy Keating, Michaela June Kerrissey, Jane J. Kim, Gary King, Bruce Landon, Mary Beth Landrum, Nicole Maestas, Luca Maini, Margaret McConnell, Alex McDowell, Alecia J. McGregor, Adrianna McIntyre, Barbara McNeil, Michael McWilliams, Ellen Meara, Nicolas Menzies, Sharon-Lise Normand, Ankur Pandya, Soroush Saghafian, 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 (Graduate Curricular Committee) . . . administers the Ph.D. program in History and East Asian Languages.

Michael Puett (Chair), Peter Bol (on leave spring term), Mark C. Elliott, Arunabh Ghosh, Andrew D. Gordon, David L. Howell (on leave 2025–2026), Sun Joo Kim, William C. Kirby, Shigehisa Kuriyama, Ian J. Miller, Victor Seow, and Michael Szonyi

History and Literature, Degrees in (Undergraduate Curricular Committee) . . . oversees the concentration in History and Literature.

Bruno Carvalho (Chair) (on leave 2025–2026), Paulina Alberto, Steven Biel, Jonathan Bolton, Glenda Carpio, Philip J. Deloria, Laura Frahm, Alison Frank Johnson, Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, Maya Jasanoff (on leave 2025–2026), Ju Yon Kim, Shawon Kinew, Deidre Lynch, Durba Mitra, Christopher Pexa (on leave 2025–2026), Matthew Saunders, and Kirsten Weld (on leave 2025–2026)

Information Technology (Administrative Committee) . . . 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.

Derek Miller (Chair) (on leave fall term), Suzanne Blier (on leave 2025–2026), Scott V. Edwards, Melissa Franklin, Samuel Gershman, Gonzalo Giribet, Klara Jelinkova (ex officio), Andrew Juraschek (ex officio), Henry Leitner, Peter Der Manuelian, Felipe Pereda, Sarah Richardson, Christopher Stubbs (ex officio), Jason Ur, and James Waldo

Inner Asian and Altaic Studies (Graduate Curricular Committee) . . . administers the Ph.D. program in Inner Asian and Altaic Studies.

Leonard van der Kuijp (Chair), Mark C. Elliott, Rowan Flad, Janet Gyatso, Cemal Kafadar, Jinah Kim, Terry Martin, Michael Puett, Eugene Y. Wang, and Richard Wolf

Latin American and Iberian Studies (Interdisciplinary Coordinating Committee) . . . oversees the certificates awarded by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.

Steven Levitsky (Chair), Davíd Carrasco, Bruno Carvalho (on leave 2025–2026), Thomas B. F. Cummins, Alejandro de la Fuente, Alisha Holland, Mariano Siskind (on leave 2025–2026), Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Jocelyn Viterna (on leave 2025–2026), and Kirsten Weld (on leave 2025–2026)

Medical Sciences, Higher Degrees in (Graduate Curricular Committee) . . . 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

Medieval Studies (Instructional Program Committee) . . . oversees secondary fields for undergraduates and Ph.D. students and promotes and coordinates work in medieval subjects throughout the University.

Elizabeth Kamali (Chair), Dimiter Angelov, Josiah Blackmore, Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja, Suzannah Clark, Thomas B. F. Cummins, Sean Gilsdorf (ex officio), Luis Girón Negrón, Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Amy Hollywood, Ioli Kalavrezou (fall term only), Jinah Kim, Christina Maranci, Hannah Marcus, Michael McCormick, Jeffrey McDonough, Joseph Nagy, Shady H. Nasser, Alina Payne, Alexander Riehle, Panagiotis Roilos, Paul Russell, Daniel Smail, Christine Smith, Charles Stang, David Stern, Xiaofei Tian, Nicholas Watson, and Anna Wilson

Middle Eastern Studies (Graduate Curricular Committee) . . . 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), Gareth Doherty, Luis Girón Negrón, Peter Der Manuelian, Christina Maranci, Derek Penslar (on leave spring term), and Intisar Rabb

Mind, Brain, and Behavior (Instructional Program Committee) . . . coordinates the teaching of neuroscience and related fields among Harvard’s departments.

Elizabeth Phelps (Chair), George Alvarez, Nicholas W. Bellono, Elika Bergelson (on leave fall term), Jonathan Bobaljik (on leave 2025–2026), Cheryl Chen, Gennaro Chierchia, Fiery Cushman, Kathryn Davidson, Benjamin de Bivort, Krzysztof Gajos, Samuel Gershman, Erin Hecht (on leave spring term), Steven E. Hyman, Talia Konkle, Gabriel Kreiman, Christopher Kuzawa, Jeff Lichtman, Jeffrey Macklis, Jason Mitchell, Venkatesh Murthy (on leave fall term), Charles Nelson, Steven Pinker (on leave 2025–2026), Sarah Richardson, Stuart Shieber, David Silbersweig, Alison Simmons, Maurice Smith (on leave fall term), Ashley J. Thomas, Naoshige Uchida, Leslie Valiant, and Lisa M. Wong

Neuroscience, Degrees in (Undergraduate Curricular Committee) . . . oversees the concentration in Neuroscience.

Naoshige Uchida (Chair), Randy Buckner, Benjamin de Bivort, Catherine Dulac, Florian Engert, Venkatesh Murthy (on leave fall term), Bence Ölveczky, Elizabeth Phelps, Aravinthan Samuel, and Amanda Whipple

Oceanography (Interdisciplinary Coordinating Committee) . . . 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 (on leave fall term), Daniel Schrag (on leave 2025–2026), and Fiamma Straneo

Political Economy and Government, Higher Degrees in (Graduate Curricular Committee) . . . administers the Ph.D. program in Political Economy and Government.

Robert Stavins (Chair), Christopher Avery, Melissa Dell, Edward Glaeser, Alisha Holland, Joseph Newhouse, Pia Raffler, J. Mark Ramseyer, Maya Sen, James Snyder, Dustin Tingley, and Richard Zeckhauser

Professional Conduct (Administrative Committee) . . . 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), Melissa Dell, David Haig, Wai-yee Li, Sarah Richardson, and Joost Vlassak

Public Health Sciences, Higher Degrees in (Graduate Curricular Committee) . . . 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.

Jane J. Kim (Chair), Flaminia Catteruccia, Jarvis T. Chen, Sebastien Haneuse, Rajarshi Mukherjee, Eric Rimm, and Meredith Rosenthal

  •  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), Sarah Fortune, Jane J. Kim (ex officio), Brendan Manning, 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), Brent Coull, Jane J. Kim (ex officio), 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, David Cutler, Karen Emmons, Jane J. Kim (ex officio), Francine Laden, and Lorelei Mucci

Public Policy, Higher Degrees in (Graduate Curricular Committee) . . . administers the Ph.D. program in Public Policy.

Robert Stavins (Chair), Joseph Aldy, Christopher Avery, Matthew Baum, Michela Carlana (on leave 2025–2026), Justin de Benedictis-Kessner, Edward Glaeser, Sharad Goel, Rema Hanna, Asim Khwaja, Jennifer Lerner, Fredrik Logevall, Julia Minson, Rana Mitter, Mark Shepard, and Richard Zeckhauser

Public Service (Administrative Committee) . . . oversees all undergraduate public service and volunteer programs authorized by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Lauren Kaminsky (Co-Chair), Dustin Tingley (Co-Chair), Stephen Chaudoin (on leave 2025–2026), Andrew Clark, David Deming (ex officio), Scott V. Edwards, Edward Glaeser, Fawwaz Habbal, Edward J. Hall, Flavia Peréa, Julie A. Reuben (ex officio), and Doris Sommer

Quantum Science and Engineering, Higher Degrees in (Graduate Curricular Committee) . . . administers the Ph.D. program in Quantum Science and Engineering.

John Doyle (Co-Chair), Evelyn Hu (Co-Chair) (on leave fall term), Anurag Anshu, Marko Lončar, and Kang-Kuen Ni

Regional Studies–East Asia, A.M. Degree in (Graduate Curricular Committee) . . . administers the A.M. program in Regional Studies–East Asia.

Alexander Zahlten (Chair), Christina Davis, Thomas P. Kelly, William C. Kirby, Ya-Wen Lei, Si Nae Park, Meg Rithmire, James Robson, and Moira Weigel

Regional Studies–Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia, A.M. Degree in (Graduate Curricular Committee) . . . administers the A.M. program in Regional Studies–Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia.

Grzegorz Ekiert (Chair), Eve Blau, Jonathan Bolton, Steven Clancy (on leave spring term), Timothy Colton, Daria Khitrova, Aleksandra Kremer, Terry Martin, Kelly A. O’Neill, and Serhii Plokhii (on leave fall term)

Religion, Study of (Graduate and Undergraduate Curricular Committee) . . . oversees the Ph.D. program in Religion and the concentration in the Comparative Study of Religion.

Luis Girón Negrón (Chair), Ali Asani (on leave 2025–2026), Swayam Bagaria, Giovanni Bazzana, Catherine Brekus (on leave 2025–2026), Francis X. Clooney, Benjamin Dunning, Mohsen Goudarzi, Ahmad Greene-Hayes, Janet Gyatso, Jay M. Harris, David Hempton, David Holland, Amy Hollywood, Nikki Hoskins, Terrence Johnson, Courtney Bickel Lamberth, David Lamberth (on leave fall term), Shaul Magid, Jacob Olupona, Kimberley Patton, Felipe Pereda, Michael Puett, Annette Yoshiko Reed (on leave 2025–2026), Julia Rhyder, Mayra Rivera (spring term only), James Robson, Panagiotis Roilos, Michelle C. Sanchez, Martha Selby, Terenjit Sevea (on leave 2025–2026), Charles Stang, David Stern, D. Andrew Teeter, Eugene Y. Wang, Nicholas Watson, Raúl Zegarra, and Malika Zeghal (on leave 2025–2026)

Research Policy (Faculty Research Committee) . . . 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 2025–2026 is not yet available.

Social Policy, Higher Degrees in (Graduate Curricular Committee) . . . administers the Ph.D. program in Social Policy.

Deirdre Bloome (Chair), Desmond Ang, Daniel Carpenter, Christina Ciocca Eller, Justin de Benedictis-Kessner, Jennifer Hochschild, Taeku Lee, David Pedulla (on leave 2025–2026), and Daniel Schneider

Social Studies, Degrees in (Undergraduate Curricular Committee) . . . oversees the concentration in Social Studies.

David Armitage (Chair), Eric Beerbohm (on leave spring term), Christina Ciocca Eller, Gabriella Coleman (on leave 2025–2026), Philip J. Deloria, Katrina Forrester (on leave spring term), Shterna Friedman, David Newman Glovsky, Peter E. Gordon, Peter A. Hall, Jonathan Hansen, Steven Levitsky, Jamie Martin, Durba Mitra, Amanda Pallais, Michael Puett, Sarah Richardson, Chris Rominger, Michael Rosen (on leave 2025–2026), Emma Rothschild, Tommie Shelby (on leave 2025–2026), Doris Sommer, Joel Suarez, Brandon Terry, Adaner Usmani, Moira Weigel, Malika Zeghal (on leave 2025–2026), and Daniel Ziblatt

Special Concentrations (Undergraduate Curricular Committee) . . . 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.

Joshua D. Greene (Chair), Stephen N. Chong, Benjamin de Bivort, Jerold Kayden, Lisa Laskin, Stephen Marglin, Sandra Naddaff, Pia Sörensen, and Richard Wolf

Systems, Synthetic, and Quantitative Biology, Higher Degrees in (Graduate Curricular Committee) . . . 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 (on leave fall term), and Michael Springer

Theater, Dance, and Media (Undergraduate Curricular Committee) . . . oversees a concentration and a secondary field in Theater, Dance, and Media.

David Levine (Chair, fall term), Derek Miller (Chair, spring term) (on leave fall term), Tania Bruguera, Kelvin Dinkins, Jr. (ex officio), Yvette Jackson, Robin Kelsey (on leave 2025–2026), Daria Khitrova, Sam Marks, Ryan McKittrick (ex officio), Lisa Parkes, Parimal G. Patil (on leave 2025–2026), Diane Paulus (ex officio), Martin Puchner (on leave 2025–2026), Alexander Rehding (on leave 2025–2026), Matthew Saunders, James Stanley (ex officio), Stew Stewart, Kate van Orden (on leave 2025–2026), and Naomi Weiss (on leave fall term)

Ukrainian Studies (Instructional Program Committee) . . . 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 (on leave spring term), Timothy Colton, Grzegorz Ekiert, Alison Frank Johnson, Serhii Plokhii (on leave fall term), and Bohdan Tokarskyi

Undergraduate Educational Policy (Administrative Committee) . . . is the general oversight body for the undergraduate curriculum.

Amanda Claybaugh (Co-Chair), David Deming (Co-Chair), Sarah Champlin-Scharff, David Cutler (ex officio), Emma Dench (ex officio), Joshua D. Greene, Hopi Hoekstra (ex officio), Alisha Holland, Lauren Kaminsky, Sean D. Kelly (ex officio), Margo S. Levine, Jeff Lichtman (ex officio), Amanda Lobell, Logan McCarty, Louis Menand (on leave spring term), Jeffrey Miron, Rebecca Nesson, David Parkes (ex officio), Gillian Beecher Pierce, Stuart Shieber, and Mansi Srivastava

Women (Administrative Committee) . . . monitors the status of women and gender minorities at all levels of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to ensure that they have the freedom, security, respect, and resources to pursue opportunities for their greatest personal, professional, and scholarly development.

Mary D. Lewis (Chair), Emily Breza, David Charbonneau, Laura Frahm, Melissa Franklin, Evelynn Hammonds, Mark L. Hatzenbuehler, Evelyn Hu (on leave fall term), Annabel Kim, Caroline Light, Durba Mitra, Nicole Noll, Si Nae Park, Parimal G. Patil (on leave 2025–2026), Anne Shreffler (spring term only), Salil Vadhan, Amy Wagers, and Jessica Whited

Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Degrees in Studies of (Undergraduate Curricular Committee) . . . oversees the concentration and the Ph.D. secondary field in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality.

Evelynn Hammonds (Chair), Robin Bernstein (on leave 2025–2026), Josiah Blackmore, Michael Bronski, Cynthia Dwork, Katrina Forrester (on leave spring term), Hannah Frydman, Elena Glassman, Annabel Kim, Jinah Kim, Ju Yon Kim, Marius Kothor, Caroline Light, Deidre Lynch, Durba Mitra, Imani Perry (on leave 2025–2026), Sarah Richardson, Susanna Siegel, and Alejandra Vela Martínez (on leave spring term)