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 or (3) FAS faculty member outside of the Department.
Department Faculty Members:
Regular faculty for 2011-2012 are the following:
George Alvarez (on leave fall term) |
Jason Mitchell |
Mahzarin Banaji (on leave 2011-2012) |
Ken Nakayama (on leave 2011-2012) |
Joshua Buckholtz |
Matthew Nock |
Randy Buckner (on leave 2011-2012) |
Steven Pinker |
Alfonso Caramazza |
Daniel Schacter |
Susan Carey |
James Sidanius (on leave fall term) |
Daniel Gilbert |
Jesse Snedeker (on leave spring term) |
Joshua Greene (on leave fall term) |
Elizabeth Spelke |
Richard Hackman (on leave 2011-2012) |
Felix Warneken (on leave fall term) |
Christine Hooker |
Daniel Wegner |
Jill Hooley |
John Weisz |
Ellen Langer |
Yaoda Xu |
Richard McNally |
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Faculty on leave do not usually supervise Psychology 985 or thesis work. 
Co-Supervisors:
(1) Department Graduate Student
In order to co-supervise, qualified department graduate students will need to 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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