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Harvard University announces
Task Forces on Women Faculty and Women in Science and Engineering
Membership and Charge to Task Force on Women Faculty
February 3, 2005
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Press Contacts:
Whitney Espich
Lucie McNeil Questions/comments: Task Force on Women Faculty: wf@harvard.edu Task Force on Women in Science and Engineering: wise@harvard.edu More information: Overview Membership and Charge to Task Force on Women Faculty Membership and Charge to Task Force on Women in Science and Engineering 1991 FAS Standing Committee on the Status of Women report, "Women in Science at Harvard; Part I: Junior Faculty and Graduate Students" Biographical Information |
Charge
As part of a broad effort to affirm its commitment to the advancement and support of women in academic life, Harvard has announced the formation of a University-wide Task Force on Women Faculty, chaired by Evelynn Hammonds, Professor of History of Science and African and African-American Studies, and charged with making recommendations concerning design and implementation of a series of concrete measures designed to promote gender diversity in faculty ranks and in academic leadership positions across the University. The examination of issues relating to women faculty will include attention to the particular challenges and barriers faced by minority women pursuing academic careers.
The Task Force shall consider and make recommendations with respect to:
In addition, the Task Force shall evaluate existing means, and consider potential new ones, for:
The Task Force will be expected to consider and make recommendations concerning the most effective means for accomplishing the goals outlined above, taking into account best practices, proven effectiveness, and the distinctive cultures and hiring practices of Harvard's various Faculties and Schools. While careful analysis and thoughtful deliberation will be required to ensure that the University adopts approaches that are effective and durable, it is hoped that the Task Force will complete its work by the end of the 2004-05 academic year, and that its recommendations may be considered for implementation in time for the beginning of the 2005-06 academic year, or sooner if practicable.
Membership
Chaired by Professor Evelynn Hammonds, the Task Force includes junior and senior faculty from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and from Schools across the University. Task Force members include:
Evelynn Hammonds, Professor of History of Science and of African and African American Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Chair
Joan Brugge, Professor of Cell Biology; Head of the Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School
Lizabeth Cohen, Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies and Director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Marjorie Garber, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English and American Literature and Language and of Visual and Environmental Studies, Director of the Humanities Center and Director of the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Sue Goldie, Associate Professor of Health Decision Science in the Faculty of Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health
William Graham, Dean of the Faculty of Divinity; John Lord O'Brian Professor of Divinity; Honorary Associate and Former Master of Currier House; Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Myra Hart, MBA Class of 1961 Chair; Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School
Elena Kagan, Charles Hamilton Houston Professor of Law; Dean of the Faculty of Law, Harvard Law School
Jane Mansbridge, Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values; Radcliffe Fellow, Kennedy School of Government
Toshiko Mori, Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Architecture and Chair, Department of Architecture, Graduate School of Design
Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government and Director of Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Ann Rowland, Assistant Professor, Department of English and American Literature and Language, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Robert Selman, Roy E. Larsen Professor of Education and Human Development; Graduate School of Education and Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Margo Seltzer, Herchel Smith Professor of Computer Science; Associate Dean for Computer Science and Engineering in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Drew Faust, Lincoln Professor of History and Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, ex officio
Clayton Spencer, Associate Vice President for Higher Education Policy, Advisory
Staff:
Kasia Lundy
Amy Paradis
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