Find us on
Scholarly Life
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, which awards the Harvard PhD, offers 57 degree programs, including interfaculty PhD programs with Harvard’s professional schools. PhD students may broaden their programs by enrolling in a growing number of secondary fields of study.
GSAS Commencement 2012
May 24
We look forward to celebrating with you on May 24, 2012. For all the information you will need about Commencement, visit our Commencement page.
Scholarly Life
Dean Allan Brandt to Step Down
February 16, 2012
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences has announced that Allan M. Brandt, who led the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences with a steady hand and an optimistic vision through a period of fiscal turmoil at Harvard and beyond, will step down this spring as Dean, in order to begin medical treatment after a recently diagnosed illness.
Brandt will be succeeded on an interim basis by Richard Tarrant, the Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, who will serve as GSAS Dean while FAS Dean Michael M. Smith conducts the search for a new and permanent replacement. Tarrant previously served as Acting Dean of the Graduate School in 1995–1996.
Related coverage:
Harvard Gazette (February 16, 2012)