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 M. 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
tel: 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 Brandt earned his undergraduate degree at Brandeis University and a PhD in American history from Columbia University in 1983. His work focuses on social and ethical aspects of health, disease, and medical practices in 20th-century United States.

He is the author of The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America, which was a 2008 Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of the Bancroft Prize; and No Magic Bullet: A Social History of Venereal Disease in the United States Since 1880. Dean Brandt has written on the social history of epidemic disease; the history of public health; and the history of human subject research among other topics.