Social Sciences Area Committee and Tenure Appointments Committee 2015-2016

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 (fall only) | Professor of Statistics

Marvin Chun | Richard M. Colgate Professor of Psychology and Professor of Neuroscience

Eduardo Fernandez-Duque | Professor of Anthropology

Johannes Horner (spring only) | Cowles Professor of Economics and Professor of Management

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

Gregory McCarthy | Professor of Psychology

Frances Rosenbluth | Damon Wells Professor of Political Science

Stephen Skowronek (fall only) | Pelatiah Perit Professor of Political Science and Professor in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies

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

Frederick Wherry (fall only) | Professor of Sociology and in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies

Raffaella Zanuttini | 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

Peter Perdue | Professor of History