Harvard FAS Elects 6 New Members to Faculty Council

The Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences elected six new members to its Faculty Council, elevating several professors hoping to exert more control over the University’s governance amid the Trump administration’s attacks on higher education.

The Faculty Council, a 19-member board chaired by FAS Dean Hopi E. Hoekstra, is arguably its most powerful faculty committee. The body oversees Harvard’s largest division, which includes Harvard College, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the Division of Continuing Education.

The new members are Economics professor Pol Antràs, Government professor Ryan D. Enos, Women Gender, and Sexuality professor Durba Mitra, Applied Physics professor Kevin K. “Kit” Parker, Philosophy professor Alison J. Simmons, and Mathematics professor Melanie E. Matchett Wood. They will begin their terms on July 1.

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