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 2009-2010 are the following:
George Alvarez |
Wendy Mendes (on leave 2009-10) |
Mahzarin Banaji |
Jason Mitchell (on leave 2009-10) |
Randy Buckner |
Ken Nakayama |
Alfonso Caramazza |
Matthew Nock |
Susan Carey |
Steven Pinker (on leave Spring 2010) |
Daniel Gilbert |
Diego Pizzagalli |
Joshua Greene (on leave Fall 2009) |
Daniel Schacter (on leave Fall 2009) |
Richard Hackman |
James Sidanius |
Marc Hauser |
Jesse Snedeker |
Christine Hooker (on leave 2009-10) |
Elizabeth Spelke (on leave Spring 2010) |
Jill Hooley (on leave Spring 2010) |
Felix Warneken (new in 2009-10) |
Stephen Kosslyn |
Daniel Wegner (on leave Spring 2010) |
Ellen Langer (on leave Spring 2010) |
John Weisz |
Richard McNally |
Yaoda Xu |
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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