Committees and Offices

Related Committees & Offices

Below are some useful offices related to the appointment and promotion of FAS faculty and researchers. Also below is a description of the FAS Committee on Appointments and Promotions (CAP).

Offices

• FAS Office for Faculty Affairs
• FAS Payroll Office
• Harvard Benefits Office
• Harvard International Office: HIO is an excellent resource for questions about visas and other issues related to international appointees.
• Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Faculty (SVPF)

Committee on Appointments and Promotions

The Committee on Appointments and Promotions (CAP) plays a key role in the appointment and promotion of FAS faculty members. CAP is led by the Edgerley Family Dean of the FAS, and includes such leaders as the Divisional Deans for the Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, Science, and the John A. Paulson Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS); the Danoff Dean of Harvard College; the Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; the Dean for Faculty Affairs and Planning; the Dean of Undergraduate Education; the Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development; and a tenured professor from each division and SEAS.

Once departments or SEAS areas have approved a case for further consideration, CAP members rigorously review the dossiers in tenure cases, promotions of assistant professors to associate professor, appointments and reappointments of senior non-ladder faculty, and appointments of associate senior lecturers and advise on whether the case should proceed.

The members of CAP for AY 2025-2026, led by Hopi Hoekstra, Edgerley Family Dean of the FAS as of August 1, 2025, are listed below.

Amanda Claybaugh
Dean of Undergraduate Education
Samuel Zemurray, Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Professor of English

David M. Cutler
Dean of Social Science
Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics

David Deming
Danoff Dean of Harvard College

Emma Dench
Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History and of the Classics

Laura Fisher  
Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development

Hopi Hoekstra
Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

David Johnston
Interim Dean of Science
Betty Wold Johnson Foundation Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Sean Kelly
Dean of Arts and Humanities
Teresa G. and Ferdinand F. Martignetti Professor of Philosophy

Joseph Koerner
Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Art and Architecture

David Mooney
Robert P. Pinkas Family Professor of Bioengineering

Karin Öberg
Professor of Astronomy
Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences

David Parkes
John A. Paulson Dean of the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Daniel Ziblatt   
Eaton Professor of Government

Nina Zipser 
Dean for Faculty Affairs and Planning