Step One: Topic
The 985 supervisor
Your supervisor for Psychology 985 must be a regular department faculty member or an asterisked member of the Board of Honors Tutors.
Often students choose a co-supervisor with whom the work more closely. A co-supervisor can be (1) an approved graduate student in the department (2) other researchers including non-asterisked member Board of Honors Tutors or outside researchers of (3) FAS faculty member outside of the Department
Department Faculty Members:
Regular faculty for 2008-2009 are the following:
George Alvarez |
Wendy Mendes |
Mahzarin Banaji |
Jason Mitchell |
Randy Buckner (on leave 2008-9) |
Ken Nakayama (on leave 2008-9) |
Alfonso Caramazza |
Matthew Nock (on leave 2008-9) |
Susan Carey (on leave Spring 2009) |
Steven Pinker |
Daniel Gilbert |
Diego Pizzagalli |
Joshua Greene (on leave Fall 2008) |
Daniel Schacter |
Richard Hackman |
James Sidanius |
Marc Hauser (on leave 2008-9) |
Jesse Snedeker (on leave Fall 2008) |
Christine Hooker |
Elizabeth Spelke |
Jill Hooley |
Daniel Wegner |
Stephen Kosslyn |
John Weisz |
Richard McNally |
Yaoda Xu (on leave Fall 2008) |
Faculty on leave do not usually supervise Psychology 985 or thesis work. 
Co-Supervisors:
(1) Department Graduate Student
Qualified department graduate students will have passed their second-year project
before you hold your prospectus meeting, have the approval of their own advisor,
and be involved in only one other thesis project.
(2) Other Researchers
These are scholars who have a Ph.D. or equivalent. They include but are not limited
to departmental lecturers and non-asterisked members of the Board of Honors Tutors, a group
of non-departmental researchers who have agreed to consider serving as thesis supervisors for honors
concentrators in psychology. If you are requesting a researcher who is not a lecturer
or board member, you should attached a statement to your Psychology 985 application
explaining how this person is an appropriate supervisor for your 985 work.
You should note the person's title and affiliation in your statement (e.g., "Professor
of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School"), and
if the person is not Harvard affiliated, you should include her/his curriculum vitae (resume).
You do not need to include a statement and curriculum vitae for a lecturer or board member.
(3) Other FAS Faculty
Occasionally a faculty member in a department outside of psychology is an appropriate co-supervisor for Psychology 985. This occurs typically with Life Science students whose interdisciplinary research interest touches on areas in other life sciences like Neurobiology or Human Evolutionary Biology.
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