Department, Division, and Committee Chairs and Representatives

The following lists the Chairs (CH), Directors of Graduate Studies (DGS), Directors of Undergraduate Studies (DUS), Directors of Studies (DS), Head Tutors of undergraduate concentrations (HT), and Undergraduate Advisers (UA) for the departments, divisions, and committees of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Advising staff for undergraduates are listed on the Advising Programs Office website. Telephone numbers and email addresses for individual members of the Faculty are available through the on-line Harvard Directory.

African & African American Studies
(617) 495-4113
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (CH)
Werner Sollors (DGS)
Glenda Carpio (DUS)
African Studies
(617) 495-5265
TBA (CH)

Anthropology
(617) 495-5837
Theodore C. Bestor (CH)
Noreen Tuross (DGS-Archaeology)
Peter Ellison (DGS-Biological)
Steven C. Caton (DGS-Social)
Mary Steedly (DUS)

Applied Mathematics
(617) 495-2833
Michael Brenner (DUS)

Archaeology
Michael McCormick (CH)
(617) 495-2556

Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning
(617) 496-1240
K. Michael Hays (Co-CH, Co-DGS)
Antoine Picon (Co-CH, Co-DGS)

Astronomy and Astrophysics
(617) 495-3752
James M. Moran (CH)
John Peter Huchra (DGS)
David Charbonneau (DUS)

Biochemical Sciences
(617) 495-4106
Rachelle Gaudet (Co-HT)
Richard M. Losick (Co-HT)

Biological Sciences in Dental Medicine
(617) 432-5739
Bjørn R. Olsen (CH, DGS)
(617) 432-1874

Biological Sciences in Public Health
(617) 432-2932
Marianne Wessling-Resnik (CH)

Biology
David A. Haig (HT)
(617) 496-5125

Biophysics
(617) 495-3360
James M. Hogle (CH, DGS)

Biostatistics
(617) 432-1087
Victor DeGruttola (CH)
David Wypij (DGS)

Business Economics
(617) 495-6106
Jerry R. Green (CH)
Business Studies
(617) 495-6106
Mihir Desai (CH)

Celtic Languages and Literatures
(617) 495-1206
Catherine McKenna (CH)
Tomás Ó Cathasaigh (DGS)

Chemical and Physical Biology
(617) 495-4076
Rachelle Gaudet (Acting CH, Co-HT)
Erin K. O’Shea (CH, Co-HT)
(on leave 2009-10)
Daniel E. Kahne (Co-HT)

Chemical Biology
Jon Clardy (Co-CH, Co-DGS)
(617) 432-2845
David R. Liu (Co-CH, Co-DGS)
(617) 496-1067

Chemical Physics
Eric J. Heller (Acting CH)
(617) 384-9489
Eugene I. Shakhnovich (CH)
(on leave 2009-10)
Matthew D. Shair (Co-DGS)
Anthony R. Shaw, Jr. (Co-DGS)

Chemistry and Chemical Biology
(617) 495-4076
Andrew G. Myers (CH, Co-DGS)
Anthony R. Shaw, Jr. (Co-DGS)
Daniel E. Kahne (Co-DUS)
Greg Tucci (Co-DUS)

Chemistry and Physics
Eric J. Heller (CH)
(617) 496-7537
Howard Georgi (DUS)

Classics, The
(617) 495-4027
John Duffy (CH)
Emma Dench (DGS)
Richard Thomas (DUS)

Computer Science
(617) 495-2833
Steven J. Gortler (DUS)

Core Program
(617) 495-2563

Dramatic Arts
(617) 496-5148
Julie Peters (CH)

Earth and Planetary Sciences
(617) 495-2351
John H. Shaw (CH)
Sujoy Mukhopadhyay (Co-DGS)
Eli Tziperman (Co-DGS)
Andrew Knoll (Co-HT)
Ann Pearson (Co-HT)
(on leave 2009-2010)

East Asian Languages and Civilizations
(617) 495-2754
Wilt L. Idema (CH)
Melissa McCormick (DGS)
Wai-Yee Li (HT)

Economics
(617) 495-2144
John Y. Campbell (CH)
Alberto Alesina (DGS)
Jeffrey A. Miron (DUS)

Engineering Sciences
(617) 495-2833
Joost Vlassak (DUS)
Marie D. Dahleh (Assistant DUS)

English
(617) 495-2533
James Engell (CH)
William James Simpson (DGS)
Daniel G. Donoghue (DUS)

Environmental Science and Public Policy
(617) 496-6995
TBA (CH)
Michael B. McElroy (HT)

European Studies
(617) 495-4303
David G. Blackbourn (CH)

Expository Writing
See Harvard College Writing Program.

Extra-Departmental Courses
(617) 495-1523
Sandra Naddaff (Director)

Film and Visual Studies
Tom Conley (Acting CH, DGS)
(617) 496-6090
TBA (CH)

Folklore and Mythology
(617) 495-4788
Maria Tatar (CH)
Deborah D. Foster (HT)

Forestry
(978) 724-3302
David R. Foster (DGS)

Freshman Seminar Program
(617) 495-1523
Sandra Naddaff (Director)

General Education, Program in
(617) 495-2563
Stephanie H. Kenen (Administrative Director)

Germanic Languages and Literatures
(617) 495-2339
Eric Rentschler (CH)
Peter Burgard (DGS)
Markus Wilczek

Global Health
(617) 495-8222
David M. Cutler (Co-CH)
Paul E. Farmer (Co-CH)

Government
(617) 495-2149
Nancy Lipton Rosenblum (CH)
James Alt (DGS)
Cheryl Brown Welch (DUS)

Harvard College Writing Program
(617) 495-2566
Thomas R. Jehn (Director)

Health Policy
(617) 496-5412
Joseph P. Newhouse (CH)
B. Katherine Swartz (DGS)

History
(617) 495-2504
Lizabeth Cohen (CH)
David R. Armitage (DGS)
Daniel L. Smail (DUS)

History and East Asian Languages
Mark C. Elliott (CH)
(617) 496-5343

History and Literature
(617) 495-4029
Jill M. Lepore (CH)
Jeanne Follansbee Quinn (DS)

History of American Civilization
(617) 495-3325
John Stauffer (CH, DGS)

History of Art and Architecture
(617) 495-2377
Thomas B. F. Cummins (CH)
Robin Kelsey (DGS)
Jennifer Roberts (DUS)

History of Science
(617) 495-3741
Anne Harrington (CH)
Katharine Park (DGS)
Steven Shapin (DUS)

House Seminar Program
(617) 495-1523
Sandra Naddaff (Director)

Human Development and Regenerative Biology
See Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology.

Human Evolutionary Biology
(617) 495-5837
Daniel E. Lieberman (CH)
Richard Wrangham (HT)

Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
(617) 495-3777
Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp (CH, DGS)

Latin American and Iberian Studies
(617) 495-3366
TBA (CH)

Life Sciences
(617) 495-1996
Erin K. O’Shea (CH)

Linguistics
(617) 495-4054
Gennaro Chierchia (CH)
C.-T. James Huang (DGS)
Maria Polinsky (DUS)

Literature and Comparative Literature
(617) 495-2543
David Damrosch (CH)
Sandra Naddaff (DS)

Mathematics
(617) 495-2171
Shing-Tung Yau (CH)
Richard L. Taylor (DGS)
TBA (DUS)

Medical Sciences, Division of
(617) 432-2405
Thomas M. Roberts (Dean)
David Golan (CH)
David Cardozo (DGS)

Medieval Studies
(617) 496-8993
Jeffrey Hamburger (CH)

Middle Eastern Studies
(617) 495-4056
Cemal Kadafar (CH)
Susan Kahn (Acting DGS)

Mind, Brain, and Behavior
(617) 495-5913
Sean D. Kelly (Co-CH)
Richard W. Wrangham (Co-CH)

Molecular and Cellular Biology
(617) 495-2300
Catherine Dulac (CH, Co-DGS)
Markus Meister (Co-DGS)
Richard M. Losick (HT)

Music
(617) 495-2791
Anne C. Shreffler (CH)
Kay Kaufman Shelemay (DGS)
Christopher Hasty (HT)

Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
(617) 495-5757
P. Oktor Skjaervo (CH)
Ruth R. Wisse (DGS)
TBA (DUS)

Neurobiology
John E. Dowling (CH, HT)
(617) 495-2245

Oceanography
(617) 495-2351
Eli Tziperman (CH)

Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
(617) 495-2305
Andrew A. Biewener (CH)
John R. Wakeley (DGS)
(on leave 2009-2010)
Giribet Gonzolo (HT)
David A. Haig (HT)
(on leave 2009-2010)

Organizational Behavior
(617) 495-6106
Peter V. Marsden (CH)

Philosophy
(617) 495-2191
Sean Kelly (CH)
Christine Korsgaard (DGS)
Edward J. Hall (DUS)

Physics
(617) 495-2872
Christopher Stubbs (CH)
Melissa Franklin (DGS)
Howard Georgi (DUS)
David Morin (Assistant DUS)

Political Economy and Government
(617) 495-1190
Torben Iversen (CH)
Kenneth A. Shepsle (DGS)

Psychology
(617) 495-3800
Susan E. Carey (CH)
Daniel Gilbert (DGS)
Mahzarin R. Banaji (DUS)

Public Health Sciences
(617) 432-1026
TBA (CH)

Public Policy
Robert N. Stavins (CH, DGS)
(617) 495-1820

Regional Studies-East Asia
(617) 495-3777
Xiaofei Tan (CH)

Religion, The Study of
(617) 495-5781
Diana Eck (CH)
Janet Gyatso (DGS)
Tamsin Jones (DUS)

Romance Languages and Literatures
(617) 495-2546
Virginie Greene (CH)
Mary Gaylord (DUS)

French
Christie McDonald (DGS)
Mylene Priam (UA)

Italian
Francesco Erspamer (DGS) (fall term)
Lino Pertile (DGS) (spring term)
Giuliana Minghelli (UA)
Latin American Studies
Jose Rabasa (UA)

Portuguese-Brazilian Studies
Joaquim-Francisco Coelho (DGS)
Clémence Jouët-Pastré (UA)
Romance Studies
Mary Gaylord (UA)

Spanish
Luis Girón Negrón (DGS)
Johanna Damgaard Liander (UA)

Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia Program
(617) 495-1194
Terry Martin (Acting CH, DGS)

Sanskrit and Indian Studies
(617) 495-3295
Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp (CH, DUS)
Anne Monius (DGS)

Science, Technology, and Management
(617) 495-6106
Stefan Thomke (Co-CH)
Woodward Yang (Co-CH)

Slavic Languages and Literatures
(617) 495-4065
Julie Buckler (CH)
Justin Weir (DGS)
Joanna Nizynska (DUS)

Social Policy
(617) 496-5810
Bruce Western (CH)
Kathryn Edin (Co-DGS)
Jennifer Hochschild (Co-DGS)

Social Studies
(617) 495-2163
Richard Tuck (CH)
Anya Bernstein (DS)

Sociology
(617) 495-3812
Robert J. Sampson (CH)
Frank Dobbin (DGS)
David L. Ager (Co-DUS)
Jason Beckfield (Co-DUS)

South Asian Studies
(617) 384-7683
TBA (CH)

Special Concentrations
(617) 495-4245
TBA (CH)
Deborah D. Foster (DUS)

Statistics
(617) 495-5496
Xiao-Li Meng (CH)
S. C. Samuel Kou (Co-DGS)
Carl N. Morris (Co-DGS)
Joseph Blitzstein (Co-DUS)
David Harrington (Co-DUS)

Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
(617) 496-9922
David T. Scadden (Co-CH)
Douglas A. Melton (Co-CH, Co-HT)
Kevin C. Eggan (Co-HT)

Systems Biology
(617) 432-4996
Pamela A. Silver (CH, DGS)

Ukrainian Studies
(617) 495-4053
Michael S. Flier (CH)

Visual and Environmental Studies
(617) 495-3251
Marjorie Garber (CH)
Ruth Lingford (DUS)

Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Studies of
(617) 495-9199
Bradley S. Epps (CH)
Caroline Light (DS)
Linda Schlossberg (Assistant DS)