The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is under the direction of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. It is the responsibility of that faculty to set the conditions of admission to the school, to provide courses of instruction for its students, to direct their studies and examine them in their fields of study, to establish and maintain the requirements for its degrees and make recommendations for those degrees to the Governing Boards, to lay down regulations for the governance of the school, and to exercise a general supervision of all its affairs.

Dean Allan Brandt

Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Professor of the History of Science, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Dean's Office
University Hall, 3 North
617-496-1464
fax: 617-496-8623

Dean Brandt has overall responsibility for establishing Graduate School policies guided by the Committee on Graduate Education and the Educational Policy Committee. He is also the chair of the Administrative Board of the Graduate School.

Dean Margot Nelson Gill

Administrative Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
1350 Massachusetts Avenue
Holyoke Center, 3rd Floor
617-495-1814
fax: 617-495-2928

Dean Gill has overall responsibility for implementing Graduate School policy. She supervises the work of the deans and officers under her management and the day-to-day operation of the GSAS staff.