Social Sciences Area Committee and Tenure Appointments Committee 2016-2017

The Tenure, Appointments and Promotions Committees (TACs) include a group of Full Professors from the relevant area (Humanities; Social Sciences; Biological Sciences; Physical Sciences, Engineering and Applied Sciences) who serve as members of the area committee, along with a representative from a department or program outside the area (the “outside member”). In cases involving faculty from one of the School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) departments, the Dean of the SEAS also sits on the committee as a voting member. Each Area Committee is chaired by the Divisional Dean or Director of its corresponding academic division, and the Dean of the FAS oversees the four TACs. TACs review all appointments and promotions to the ranks of Associate Professor on term (Nontenured associate, AOPN); Associate Professor without term (Tenured associate, AOPT); and Professor (PROF).

Committee Membership

Alan Gerber | Committee Chair; Dean of Social Sciences; Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of Political Science and Professor in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, of Economics and of Public Health (Health Policy)

Julia Adams | Professor of Sociology and in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies

Joseph Chang | Professor of Statistics and Data Science

Eduardo Fernandez-Duque | Professor of Anthropology

Marcia Inhorn (fall only) | William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Anthropology and Professor in the MacMillan Center

Joota Joorman | Professor of Psychology

Sam Kortum (spring only) | James Burrows Moffatt Professor of Economics and Professor of Management

Costas Meghir (fall only) | Douglas A. Warner III Professor of Economics and Professor of Management

Gregory McCarthy (spring only) | Professor of Psychology

Frances Rosenbluth | Damon Wells Professor of Political Science

Ebonya Washington | Professor of Economics, in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies of Political Science

Raffaella Zanuttini (fall only) | Professor of Linguistics

Tenure and Appointments Committee Members Only

Tamar Szabó Gendler | Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Vincent J. Scully Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

Joshua Knobe | Professor of Philosophy, of Linguistics and of Psychology