The Faculty of Arts and Sciences has delegated to the administrative board of the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (Harvard Griffin GSAS) power to enforce the regulations of the faculty relating to graduate education and for the conduct of all ordinary matters of administration and discipline. In practice, the deans handle the day-to-day administration of Harvard Griffin GSAS, relying on the board for guidance in many matters. However, the board receives reports on exceptions made to the rules, and it considers all matters of discipline.
The administrative board may initiate proposals for new, or modifications of existing, legislation affecting graduate students. Such initiatives move from the board to the Committee on Graduate Education, which has responsibility for considering all legislation affecting graduate education. The administrative board has no jurisdiction over departmental academic rules and regulations except a concern that they be fairly administered and do not conflict with the rules and regulations adopted by the faculty. The board serves as the academic department for all students in ad hoc degree programs.
The administrative board is composed of the dean of the graduate school (chair), teaching members of the faculty (from the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and interfaculty programs), the registrar, the dean for student affairs, the dean for administration and finance, the dean for admissions and financial aid, the dean for academic programs, the dean of equity, diversity, inclusion & belonging, and the assistant dean of student affairs, who acts as secretary.
Members of the Administrative Board, Academic Year 2023-2024
Emma Dench
McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History and of the Classics and Dean of the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (Chair)
Allen Aloise
Dean for Administration and Finance
Michael J. Aziz (currently on sabbatical)
Gene and Tracy Sykes Professor of Materials and Energy Technologies
Noel Bisson
Dean for Academic Programs
Richard Born
Professor of Neurobiology
Catherine Brekus
Charles Warren Professor of the History of Religion in America
Michael Burke
Dean for Student Services, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Robert Coughlin
Dean for Admissions and Financial Aid
Michael S. Flier
Oleksandr Potebnja Professor of Ukrainian Philology
Peter Girguis (currently on sabbatical)
Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Evelynn Hammonds
Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and Professor of African and African American Studies
Jill M. Hooley
John Lindsley Professor of Psychology in Memory of William James
Arthur M. Jaffe
Landon T. Clay Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Science
Erika McDonald
Registrar, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Kathleen L. McGinn
Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration
Irene Peirano Garrison
Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature
Gabriela Soto Laveaga (currently on sabbatical)
Professor of the History of Science and Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico
Bill Stackman
Dean of Students
Sheila Thomas
Dean for Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging, and Special Projects Advisor
Paige Williams
Senior Lecturer on Biostatistics