Executive Committee of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
The Executive Committee of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is the deliberative body for all the research PhD and MA programs at Columbia, and has faculty representatives from all the doctoral programs across the university: Architecture, Arts and Sciences, Business, Engineering, International and Public Affairs, Journalism, Medicine, Nursing, Public Health, Social Work, and Teachers College. The committee establishes academic standards and administrative policy for graduate education in the university. Among its most important functions are reviewing existing programs of study and approving proposals for new doctoral and master's programs. View the approval process and workflow here.
Chair
Carlos J. Alonso, Dean
Arts and Sciences Departments
Humanities
Claudia Breger, Germanic Languages
Matt Hart, English
David Lurie, East Asian Languages & Cultures
Carol Rovane, Philosophy
Natural Sciences
Gustaaf Brooijmans, Physics
Arian Maleki, Statistics
Caroline Marvin, Psychology
Mary Putman, Astronomy
Social Sciences
Vanessa Agard-Jones, Anthropology
Shigeo Hirano, Political Science
Navin Kartik, Economics
Denise Milstein, Sociology
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Donna Farber, Microbiology & Immunology
Arthur Palmer, Associate Dean for Graduate Affairs, College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia Engineering
Garud Iyengar, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Jenny Mak, Executive Director, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Doctoral Program Subcommittees
Architecture and Urban Planning
Felicity Scott, Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
Biostatistics, Environmental Health, Epidemiology and Sociomedical Sciences
Gary Miller, Mailman School of Public Health
Business
Oded Netzer, Business
Communications
Andrea Tucher, Communications
Education (Teachers College)
Noah Drezner, Higher and Postsecondary Education
Nursing
Maureen George, Nursing
Social Work
Qin Gao, Social Work
Sustainable Development
John Mutter, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Student Representatives
Ruoyu Gu, President of ASGC
Cheng Gong, Chair of PhD Council
Kim Kroupa, President of EGSC
GSAS Staff and Associates
Andrea Solomon, Vice Dean and Dean of Academic Affairs
Rebecca Hirade, Associate Dean for Finance and Operations
Richard Slusarczyk, Associate Dean of Academic and Student Affairs
Celina Chatman Nelson, Associate Dean for Academic Diversity and Inclusion