By Debra Bradley Ruder

Gazette Staff

Four scholars with significant classroom experience have been chosen to be Allston Burr Senior Tutors in the undergraduate Houses, Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis has announced.

Margaret Bruzelius has been assigned to Eliot House, John

Gerry will be in Quincy House, Marina McCarthy will live in Winthrop House, and Robert Neugeboren will be based in Cabot House.

"I'm very pleased with the selections," said Lewis. "They all have a lot of experience in the academic arena. I'm also pleased that the previous senior tutors are moving on to some exciting positions. They have done their jobs extremely well."

(Three of the outgoing tutors have left Harvard, but one -- Rory Browne -- has become associate secretary to the University in the Office of the Governing Boards.)

Senior tutors serve as the deans of the Houses and are responsible for overseeing the well-being of individual students in Harvard's 13 Houses. Among other duties, they serve on the Administrative Board, the primary disciplinary body of the College. Senior tutorships are part-time positions.

A 1994 report on the structure of Harvard College recommended that efforts be made to attract more seasoned academics to senior tutorships. The committee drafting the report was concerned that "important qualities of academic experience and worldliness" cannot be as fully represented in predoctoral senior tutors as in those who have earned their doctorates and have had some additional academic employment.

The new tutors include Bruzelius, a lecturer on literature who earned a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Yale in 1994 and who taught in Harvard's Program for Degrees in Literature in 1994-95.

Gerry earned a Ph.D. in anthropology from Harvard in 1993, has taught at Harvard, M.I.T., and Brandeis, and currently is manager of the Archaeological Materials Research Facility in the Anthropology Department at Harvard.

McCarthy received an Ed.D. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1990 and is a consultant to educational institutions, faculty, and administrators, specializing in staff and faculty development using the case method.

Neugeboren earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Cambridge, England, in 1990, and he is currently associate head tutor in the Economics Department at Harvard.