University Officers and Deans

Drew Gilpin Faust President, Harvard University Drew Gilpin Faust took office as Harvard's 28th president on July 1, 2007. Faust, a historian of the Civil War and the American South, is also the Lincoln Professor of History in Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Previously she had served as founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, a post she took up on Jan. 1, 2001. As the first dean of the Radcliffe Institute, Faust guided the transformation of Radcliffe from a college into a wide-ranging institute for advanced study. Under her leadership, Radcliffe emerged as one of the nation's foremost centers of scholarly and creative enterprise, distinctive for its multidisciplinary focus and the exploration of new knowledge at the crossroads of traditional fields. In recognition of its roots in Radcliffe College, the Institute maintains a special commitment to the study of women, gender, and society. To support its mission, Faust directed a comprehensive administrative restructuring, secured the Institute's finances, attracted major new gifts, and undertook an extensive renovation of Radcliffe's historic campus. Radcliffe's flagship fellowship program became a prized opportunity for established and emerging scholars throughout the academic world. Before coming to Radcliffe, Faust was Annenberg Professor of History and director of the Women's Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania, where she served for 25 years on the faculty. Faust was born Sept. 18, 1947, in New York City. Raised in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, Faust went on to attend Concord Academy in Massachusetts. She received her bachelor's degree from Bryn Mawr in 1968, magna cum laude with honors in history, and her master's degree (1971) and doctoral degree (1975) in American civilization from the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of five books, including Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (University of North Carolina Press, 1996), for which she won the Francis Parkman Prize in 1997. Her most recent scholarship, studying the impact of the Civil War's enormous death toll on the lives of 19th-century Americans, will be published in 2008 as This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Alfred A. Knopf). Faust is a trustee of Bryn Mawr College, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and the National Humanities Center, and she serves on the educational advisory board of the Guggenheim Foundation. She has served as president of the Southern Historical Association, vice president of the American Historical Association, and executive board member of the Organization of American Historians and the Society of American Historians. Faust has also served on numerous editorial boards and selection committees, including the Pulitzer Prize history jury in 1986, 1990, and 2004. Faust's honors include awards in 1982 and 1996 for distinguished teaching at the University of Pennsylvania. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994, the Society of American Historians in 1993, and the American Philosophical Society in 2004. Faust is married to Charles Rosenberg, one of the nation's leading historians of medicine and science, who is Professor of the History of Science and Ernest E. Monrad Professor in the Social Sciences at Harvard. Faust and Rosenberg have two daughters, Jessica Rosenberg, a 2004 summa cum laude graduate of Harvard College, and Leah Rosenberg, Faust's stepdaughter, a scholar of Caribbean literature.
Steven E. Hyman Provost Steven E. Hyman became Harvard provost in December 2001. The provost is Harvard's senior University-wide academic officer following the president. The provost's responsibilities focus on academic planning and policy matters of University priority or concern, with an emphasis on activities that extend across several Harvard faculties or otherwise involve collaboration and change. Before becoming provost, Hyman was director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Under Hyman's leadership, the NIMH heightened the priority it gave to four broad areas: (1) fundamental research on brain, behavior, and genetics; (2) rapid translation of basic discoveries into research on mental disorders and their treatment; (3) research focused on improving the lives of people with mental disorders, including clinical trials and studies of preventive interventions conducted in "real-world" settings; and (4) research on childhood mental disorders. Prior to serving as NIMH director, Hyman was a professor of psychiatry at Harvard. A leading scholar at the intersection of molecular neurobiology and psychiatry, he was the original faculty director of Harvard's Interfaculty Initiative in Mind/Brain/Behavior. He is the author or co-author of more than 100 scientific articles, reviews, and textbook chapters. Hyman is also the co-author of three books: "Handbook of Psychiatric Drug Therapy" (3d ed., 1995), "Molecular Foundations of Psychiatry" (1993), and "Molecular Neuropharmacology: A Foundation for Clinical Neuroscience" (2001).
James F. Rothenberg Treasurer Rothenberg became Harvard's 30th treasurer on July 1, 2004, and in that role serves as a member of both the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, Harvard's two governing boards. He also chairs the board of directors of the Harvard Management Company, which manages the University's endowment, and provides counsel to the University on a broad range of organizational and financial matters. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School long active in alumni affairs, Rothenberg has served since 1994 as president of Capital Research and Management Company, a principal subsidiary of the Capital Group Companies Inc. and the investment advisor to the American Funds family of mutual funds. He lives in the Los Angeles area, where he is active in a variety of educational and civic pursuits.
Jay O. Light Dean, Harvard Business School Light, the Dwight P. Robinson, Jr. Professor of Business Administration, was named dean in April 2006. A long-time member of the HBS faculty and an expert in finance, he previously served as chairman of the School's Finance Unit (1986-1988) and as a senior associate dean (1988-1994 and 1998-2005). He worked in data communications and satellite guidance at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and in management consulting before joining the faculty of the Harvard Business School in 1970. Light has taught the required first-year course in Finance in the MBA program as well as the second-year electives Investment Management, Capital Markets, Entrepreneurial Finance, and Negotiating Ventures. He is the author of the book The Financial System, as well as numerous articles and cases. Light is currently a director of the Harvard Management Company and of Partners Health Care.
Elena Kagan Dean, Harvard Law School Kagan became the 11th dean of Harvard Law School on July 1, 2003. Kagan, the Charles Hamilton Houston Professor of Law, is a leading scholar of administrative law. She has served on the faculties of both Harvard Law School and the University of Chicago Law School, in addition to holding senior legal and policy positions in the federal government. An alumna of Harvard Law School, she was a former law clerk to the late Justice Thurgood Marshall.
R. Bruce Donoff Dean, Harvard School of Dental Medicine Donoff is a professor in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (OMS) at the School of Dental Medicine and Visiting Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital. A member of the Dental School faculty since 1974, Donoff has been influential in shaping the school's educational programs; as a surgeon he has pioneered advanced facial reconstructive techniques; as a researcher he has made notable contributions through his studies of wound healing, nerve regeneration and repair, jaw repair, and through his identification of biological markers of oral cancer.
Michael D. Smith Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Smith became dean on July 16, 2007. The Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Smith previously served as associate dean for computer science and engineering during a transformational time for Harvard's new School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Smith is known for his innovative research on computing systems, particularly on issues involving a detailed knowledge of both the hardware and software in these sophisticated systems. He is also a leading figure in a range of interdisciplinary activities that explore the interplay of technology with other fields, from the life sciences to economics to philosophy to law.
Evelynn Hammonds Dean, Harvard College Hammonds, the Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, became dean of Harvard College on June 1, 2008. Previously she was the University's senior vice provost for Faculty Development and Diversity. Hammonds joined the FAS in 2002 after teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she founded the Center for the Study of Diversity in Science, Technology and Medicine. Her scholarly interests include the history of scientific, medical, and sociopolitical concepts of race, the history of disease and public health, gender in science and medicine, and African-American history. She is the author of "Childhood's Deadly Scourge: The Campaign to Control Diphtheria in New York City, 1880-1930."
Jeffrey S. Flier Dean, Harvard Medical School Flier, the George C. Reisman Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS), became dean of Harvard's Faculty of Medicine on Sept. 1, 2007. A member of the HMS faculty since 1978, Flier served for five years as chief academic officer of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), one of Harvard's leading affiliated hospitals, where he was also the Harvard faculty dean for academic programs. He has been closely involved in recent discussions of the future of Harvard-wide science, as a founding member of the Harvard University Science and Engineering Committee, and previously through his service on the University Planning Committee for Science and Engineering. A prominent authority on diabetes and obesity, Flier is known for his research into the molecular mechanisms of insulin action and insulin resistance, as well as the molecular pathophysiology of obesity. Flier was also active in shaping medical education through his work in overseeing HMS teaching programs conducted at the BIDMC and his involvement with the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program (HST).
Venkatesh Narayanamurti Dean, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Narayanamurti has been dean of the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences since 1998. An accomplished scientist and administrator in private industry and academia, Narayanamurti has maintained an active research program, most recently in the area of transport in semiconductor quantum structures, where his laboratory has pioneered the use of ballistic electron emission microscopy. He has also served on numerous national and international advisory committees.
Kathleen McCartney Dean, Harvard Graduate School of Education McCartney, Gerald S. Lesser Professor in Early Childhood Development, was named dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education on May 16, 2006, after serving as acting dean. A nationally recognized scholar on child development, McCartney has been a member of the faculty at Harvard's Graduate School of Education since 2000 and has served as the academic dean of the School. McCartney's research focuses on the interplay among child care, parenting, and poverty contexts, and her work informs theoretical questions related to early experience as well as policy questions concerning child care. As a principal investigator of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development, McCartney and her colleagues have led a national, longitudinal study of 1,364 children from birth through age 15 over the past 16 years. Major findings from this research were published in 2005 in "Child Care and Child Development" by Guilford Press. McCartney has published numerous journal articles across several disciplines and teaches courses on early childhood development.
David T. Ellwood Dean, John F. Kennedy School of Government Ellwood became Dean of the Kennedy School of Government on July 1, 2004. Ellwood is Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy and former academic dean. He previously served as assistant secretary for planning and evaluation at the Department of Health and Human Services, and was co-chair of President Clinton's efforts on welfare reform. He is a labor economist who specializes in poverty and welfare, family change, low pay, and unemployment. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including Welfare Realities: From Rhetoric to Reform, co-authored with Mary Jo Bane. His book Poor Support: Poverty in the American Family was selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the notable books of 1988 and by the Policy Studies Organization as the outstanding book of 1988. Ellwood is a recipient of the David Kershaw Award by the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management for outstanding contributions by someone under 40.
Mohsen Mostafavi Dean, Graduate School of Design Mostafavi became dean of the Faculty of Design in January 2008. An accomplished academic leader, architect, and scholar, Mostafavi previously served as the dean of Cornell University's College of Architecture, Art and Planning. Formerly an associate professor of architecture at Harvard's Graduate School of Design (GSD) and director of the Masters of Architecture I program, he served for nine years as chairman of the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, one of Europe's foremost schools of design, before his appointment at Cornell. As a scholar and educator, Mostafavi is particularly known for his studies of building surfaces and how they change over time, as well as his interest in the interplay of natural and built systems in the design and planning of urban environments.
Michael Shinagel Dean, Continuing Education and University Extension Shinagel has been Dean of Continuing Education and University Extension since 1975. As a senior lecturer on English, Shinagel teaches a course on the early English novel or satire each spring in the College and a graduate seminar in the Extension School each fall. Shinagel is author and editor of several books on 18th-century English authors as well as articles and reviews in many scholarly journals. He is editor of the Continuing Higher Education Review and a member of the Association for Continuing Higher Education.
William A. Graham Dean, Divinity School William A. Graham was appointed Dean of Harvard Divinity School in August 2002, having served as Acting Dean since January 1, 2002. He has been a member of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences since 1973. He is a past director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and past chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Committee on the Study of Religion, the Committee on Middle Eastern Studies, and the Core Curriculum Subcommittee on Foreign Cultures at Harvard. His scholarly work has focused on early Islamic religious history and textual traditions and problems in the history of world religion.
Barry R. Bloom Dean, Harvard School of Public Health Bloom, a leading expert in immunology, tropical diseases, and international health, is a major figure at the intersection of science and world health policy, through his intensive engagement with the World Health Organization, the Institute of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health, and other organizations. Prior to coming to Harvard, he was a member of the faculty at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, the Murray and Evelyne Weinstock Professor since 1985, and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 1990. Bloom is also co-chair of the Institute of Medicine's Board on International Health and chairs the Board of Trustees of the International Vaccine Institute and the UNAIDS Vaccine Advisory Committee.
Allan M. Brandt Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Brandt became dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) on Jan. 1, 2008. Professor of the history of science and Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine, Brandt has been a professor in both the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Medical School since 1992. Brandt’s major research interests include the social history of American medicine, science, and public health; ethics and values in health care; history of human subject research; and American social and political history. His book on the social and cultural history of tobacco use, “The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America” (2007) was awarded the Albert J. Beveridge Prize from the American Historical Association and the Arthur Viseltear Prize from the American Public Health Association.
Barbara J. Grosz Dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Grosz, Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and dean of science at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, was named dean April 28, 2008, after serving as acting dean since the previous July 1. Known for her seminal contributions in the field of artificial intelligence, Grosz developed some of the earliest and most influential computer dialogue systems and established the research field of computational modeling of discourse. Her work on computational models of collaboration helped launch that field of inquiry and provides the framework for several collaborative multiagent systems and human-computer interface systems. Grosz has served as dean of science at the Radcliffe Institute since September 2001. She has also served in a variety of administrative and leadership roles at Harvard, including as chair of Harvard's Task Force on Women in Science and Engineering in 2005. Grosz has been elected to the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is a fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the Association for Computing Machinery, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
A. Clayton Spencer Vice President for Policy Spencer became Harvard's first vice president for policy effective July 1, 2005. She oversees the work of the President's Office, aiming to ensure an integrated approach to activities that entail cooperative efforts with other departments or schools. From 1998 to 2005, she served as associate vice president for higher education policy. She has also served as a lecturer at Harvard's Graduate School of Education, teaching a course in federal higher education policy. Spencer practiced law at the Boston firm of Ropes & Gray (1986-89); served as an assistant U.S. attorney in Boston (1989-93), prosecuting criminal cases; and is former chief education counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources (1993-97). She is a trustee of Phillips Exeter Academy and Williams College, and a graduate of the Yale Law School. In 1997, Williams College awarded Spencer a Bicentennial Medal for achievement in the field of education policy.
Marilyn Hausammann Vice President, Human Resources Marilyn Hausammann assumed the newly created role of vice president for human resources in October 2004. Hausammann leads the University's efforts to attract, develop and retain its workforce of approximately 15,000 people, working with local human resources offices across Harvard. She has overall responsibility for developing and implementing a University-wide human resources strategy and managing the delivery of central human resources services to all employees. Central human resources services include areas such as benefits, compensation, career development, labor and employee relations, human resources information services, employee communications and employment. Hausammann is working with University leadership to establish and implement HR programs key to the University's mission and important to the success and satisfaction of staff. Hausammann's career in human resources spans more than 25 years. She came to Harvard from The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a consulting firm with offices in 37 countries, where she served as the global director of human resources. Before joining BCG, she worked at Thomson Financial as senior vice president for human resources and communications. She has also held senior human resources positions at Putnam Investments and the Bank of New England. She serves on the board of directors of the New England Human Resources Association. Hausammann holds an M.B.A from Northeastern University and an A.B. from Emmanual College.
Robert Iuliano Vice President and General Counsel In June 2003, Iuliano was named the University's Vice President and General Counsel. An attorney in the Office of the General Counsel since 1994, Iuliano became Deputy General Counsel in September 2000. Before coming to Harvard, Iuliano worked in the Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Boston, handling a broad variety of cases involving violations of federal drug, tax, fraud, money-laundering, and labor laws. At the University, Iuliano has handled a broad range of legal matters. He has also taught courses about the law at Harvard Extension School and at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Tamara Rogers Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Development Tamara Elliott Rogers became vice president for alumni affairs and development on Oct. 1, 2007. Rogers formerly was director of major gifts in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, associate director of University Development, and associate dean for advancement and planning at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Rogers graduated from Radcliffe in 1974. From 1976 to 1990, she worked in Harvard admissions, developing a particular expertise in international students and schools, before eventually moving to development. She was instrumental in creating the first Financial Aid Council, an advisory group of alumni responsible for financial aid fundraising during Harvard's $2.6 billion capital campaign in the 1990s. Rogers serves on the American Selection Committee of the United World Colleges, a global group of international secondary schools. She has also held a variety of volunteer positions for Phillips Academy, Andover.
Alan Stone Vice President, Government, Community and Public Affairs Stone oversees Harvard's relations with all levels of government - federal, state, and local; coordinates a wide range of activities involving the University's neighboring communities; and manages communications and media relations. In his previous position, as the first-ever vice president for public affairs at Columbia University, Stone created a university-wide Governing Relations Coordinating Committee. He was responsible for revamping the university's press and publications operations, making Columbia, its faculty, and administration more transparent and accessible to the media. Stone also has had extensive experience at the federal level of government, having served as the legislative director to a U.S. senator, staff director to two congressional committees, and counsel to a third. He also directed the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs during a time in which the national commitment to anti-hunger efforts increased substantially. Stone has served as a senior adviser and speechwriter for political and civic organizations, including his work as a speechwriter for President Clinton during his campaign and in the White House.
Sally H. Zeckhauser Vice President, Administration Zeckhauser oversees eight administrative units providing basic services to the University, including renovation and new construction; supervision of nonacademic real estate; and the management of the University's plant maintenance, operation and utility services; transportation; food services; Faculty Club; and printing plant. Additionally, she serves as the President's representative to special affiliated institutions, including the Harvard University Press and the Arnold Arboretum.

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