Serving as an important connection between the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (Harvard Griffin GSAS) and academic programs, directors of graduate studies (DGS) play a critical role in helping Harvard Griffin GSAS students navigate the resources available to help them thrive in graduate school.
DGSs for 2024–2025
- African and African American Studies: Paulina Alberto
- American Studies: Jesse McCarthy
- Anthropology: Peter Der Manuelian
- Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning: Antoine Picon
- Art, Film, and Visual Studies: Laura Frahm
- Astronomy: Edo Berger
- Biological Sciences in Public Health: Flaminia Catteruccia
- Biology, Molecular and Cellular: Vlad Denic
- Biology, Organismic and Evolutionary: Ben de Bivort, Elena Kramer
- Biophysics: Martha Bulyk, Rachelle Gaudet
- Biostatistics: Rajarshi Mukherjee, Sebastien Haneuse
- Business Administration: Jennifer Mucciarone
- Business Economics: Jennifer Mucciarone
- Celtic Languages and Literatures: Catherine McKenna
- Chemical Biology: Emily Balskus, Philip Cole
- Chemical Physics: Joe Lavin, Theodore Betley, Joshua Cox
- Chemistry and Chemical Biology: Joe Lavin, Theodore Betley, Joshua Cox
- Classics: Irene Peirano Garrison
- Comparative Literature: John T. Hamilton
- Earth and Planetary Sciences: Robin Wordsworth, Eli Tziperman
- East Asian Languages and Civilizations: Tomiko Yoda
- Economics: Jeffrey Miron, Brenda Piquet
- Education: Paola Uccelli, Luke Miratrix
- Engineering and Applied Sciences: Federico Capasso, Finale Dosh-Velez, Madhu Sudan, John Girash, Samuel Kou, Boris Kozinsky, Yue Lu, Eli Tziperman, Daniel Weinstock, Robin Wordsworth, Steve Wofsy, Rob Wood
- English: Derek Miller
- Germanic Languages and Literatures: John T. Hamilton
- Government: Josh Kertzer
- Health Policy: Meredith Rosenthal
- History: Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof
- History of Art and Architecture: Filipe Pereda
- History of Science: Anne Harrington (Fall), Alex Csiszar (Spring)
- Human Evolutionary Biology: Joe Henrich
- Inner Asian and Altaic Studies: Mark Elliot
- Linguistics: Jeremy Rau
- Mathematics: Joe Harris
- Medical Sciences: John Assad, Chinfei Chen, Monica Colaiacovo, Maha Farhat, Gwenaelle Geleoc, Ben Gewurz, Johanna Gutlerner, Peter Park, Shiv Pillai, Aaron Schmidt, Tari Tan, David Van Vactor, Garrett Wendy, Isaac Kohane
- Middle Eastern Studies: Shady Nasser
- Music: Kate van Orden
- Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations: Malika Zeghal
- Organizational Behavior: Jennifer Mucciarone
- Philosophy: Mark Richard
- Physics: Jacob Barandes, Philip Kim
- Political Economy and Government: Robert Stavins
- Population Health Sciences: Jarvis Chen, Bruce Villineau, Eric Rimm
- Psychology: Leah Somerville
- Public Policy: Robert Stavins
- Quantum Science Engineering: John Doyle, Evelyn Hu
- Regional Studies–East Asia: Si Nae Park
- Regional Studies–Russia, Eastern Europe, Central Asia: Timothy Colton
- Religion: Terrence Johnson
- Romance Languages and Literatures: Josiah Blackmore (Fall), Luis Girón Negrón (Spring)
- Slavic Languages and Literatures: Daria Khitrova
- Social Policy: Maya Sen
- Sociology: David Pedulla
- South Asian Studies: Martha Selby
- Statistics: Natesh Pillai, Susan Murphy
- Systems, Synthetic, and Quantitative Biology: Allon Klein, Michael Desai