# FAS Standing Committee for Public Service ## expand\_more The FAS Standing Committee on Public Service is comprised of several members of the faculty as well as student representatives. The Committee considers the role of volunteer programs in the educational life of students. The Committee uses meetings to examine and discuss issues within the area of public service. In recent years, the committee has devoted extensive time to developing ways to bridge students’ academic and public service experiences. ## FAS Standing Committee on Public Service Co-Chairs [### Dustin Tingley ](/people/dustin-tingley)Professor of Government Deputy Vice Provost for Advances in Learning Co-Chair, FAS Standing Committee on Public Service Dustin Tingley is Professor of Government in the Government Department at Harvard University. Dustin is Deputy Vice Provost for Advances in Learning, Faculty director for the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning Research Group (Harvard higher education... ![Dustin Tingley](/sites/g/files/omnuum3641/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/servicetosociety/files/dustin_tingley.jpg?itok=iW337oSy) [### Lauren Kaminsky ](/people/lauren-kaminsky) Co-Chair, FAS Standing Committee on Public Service Assistant Dean for Arts & Humanities Education Lauren Kaminsky is Harvard's inaugural assistant dean for arts and humanities education and has long taught in the modern Europe field in history and literature, with a focus on Russia and Eastern Europe. She was previously the director of studies for the... ![Lauren Kaminsky](/sites/g/files/omnuum3641/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-10/lauren_kaminsky.jpg?itok=LlVQqUWq) ## FAS Standing Committee on Public Service Members [### Andrew Clark ](/people/andrew-clark) Director of Choral Activities Senior Lecturer on Music at Harvard University Andrew Clark is the Director of Choral Activities and Senior Lecturer on Music at Harvard University. He serves as the Music Director and Conductor of the Harvard Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Harvard–Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, and... ![Andrew Clark](/sites/g/files/omnuum3641/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/servicetosociety/files/andrew_clark.jpg?itok=rGWLbRNT) [### David Deming ](/people/david-deming)Danoff Dean of Harvard College David Deming is an economist whose work focuses on higher education, economic inequality, skills, technology, and the future of the labor market. He holds teaching appointments in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School of Education, and the... person [### Doris Sommer ](/people/doris-sommer) Ira Jewell Williams, Jr., Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African and African American Studies Director of the Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard University Professor Sommer's research interests have developed from the 19th-Century novels that helped to consolidate new republics in Latin America through the particular aesthetics of minoritarian literature, including bilingual virtuosity, to her current more... ![Doris Sommer](/sites/g/files/omnuum3641/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/servicetosociety/files/doris_sommer.jpg?itok=wTNkDcjP) [### Edward Hall ](/people/edward-hall) Norman E. Vuilleumier Professor of Philosophy I work on a range of topics in metaphysics and epistemology that overlap with philosophy of science. (Which is to say: the best topics in metaphysics and epistemology.) Are there “fundamental” laws of nature? What are they – as distinct, say, from... ![Edward Hall](/sites/g/files/omnuum3641/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-10/edward_hall.jpg?itok=kuJzyOfz) [### Edward Glaeser ](/people/edward-glaeser) Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics, FAS Edward Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1992. He regularly teaches microeconomics theory, and occasionally urban and public economics. He has... ![Edward Glaeser](/sites/g/files/omnuum3641/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/servicetosociety/files/edward_glaeser.jpg?itok=JQoxpL_I) [### Fawwaz Habbal ](/people/fawwaz-habbal)Senior Lecturer on Applied Physics, Harvard University Fawwaz Habbal is a senior lecturer on applied physics and executive dean for education and research of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. Prior to coming to Harvard, Habbal founded two companies specializing in... ![Fawwaz Habbal](/sites/g/files/omnuum3641/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/servicetosociety/files/fawwaz_habbal.jpg?itok=4aNlaASX) [### Flavia C. Peréa ](/people/flavia-c-per%C3%A9a) Director, Mindich Program in Engaged Scholarship Flavia is the founding Director of the Mindich Program in Engaged Scholarship, and a Lecturer on Social Studies at Harvard College. As Director she works across the Harvard community to stimulate community-collaborative curricular innovations and develop... ![Flavia Perea, Director of the Mindich Program for Engaged Scholarship](/sites/g/files/omnuum3641/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/servicetosociety/files/flavia_perea_director_of_the_mindich_program_for_engaged_scholarship.jpg?itok=N_3KAMHI) [### Julie Reuben ](/people/julie-reuben)Faculty Director, Center for Public Service and Engaged Scholarship Julie Reuben is a historian interested in the intersection between American thought and culture and educational institutions and practice. Her book, Making of the Modern University (1996), examines the relation between changing conceptions of knowledge... ![Julie Reuben headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum3641/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/servicetosociety/files/jreuben-website.jpg?itok=XiHzYVhA) [### Maria Dominguez Gray ](/people/maria-dominguez-gray) Class of 1955 Executive Director, PBHA As the PBHA Executive Director, Maria builds and maintains the infrastructure to sustain the organization. By working with the student leaders and members of the Board of Trustees, the Executive Director leads in shaping and carrying out the vision and... ![Maria Dominguez Gray](/sites/g/files/omnuum3641/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/servicetosociety/files/maria_test_1.jpg?itok=OwgpA4p4) [### Scott Edwards ](/people/scott-edwards) Professor and Curator, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology I am a scientist with broad interests in the evolution of life on earth and the processes that have generated biodiversity. I mostly use birds as models to study patterns of speciation, biogeography, evolution of the genome, and the process of adaptation... ![Scott Edwards](/sites/g/files/omnuum3641/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/servicetosociety/files/scott_edwards.jpg?itok=hJyRF8eL) [### Stephen Chaudoin ](/people/stephen-chaudoin) Assistant Professor of Government Professor Chaudoin’s research focuses on international institutions, international political economy, and formal and quantitative methods. His work contributes to questions of how international institutions affect member-state behavior. His theoretical... ![Stephen Chaudoin](/sites/g/files/omnuum3641/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-10/Stephen_Chaudoin.png?itok=h1Lb24w_) [### Travis Lovett ](/people/travis-lovett)Assistant Dean, Civic Engagement and Service Travis Lovett serves as the Assistant Dean of Civic Engagement and Service at Harvard College. Through his work, Travis is responsible for communications, partnership building, and mobilizing key stakeholders to broaden and deepen Harvard’s community... ![Travis Lovett](/sites/g/files/omnuum3641/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/servicetosociety/files/tl_headshot_2022-1024x1536.jpg?itok=CboQTuZd) [### Varsha Ghosh ](/people/varsha-ghosh) Director, Student Engagement and Leadership Director, First Year Urban Program, Harvard College Varsha Ghosh serves as Director of Student Engagement and Leadership, as well as the First Year Urban Program (FUP), a pre-orientation program for first year students. She acts as a key advisor over 40 public service programs in areas of risk manageent... ![Varsha Ghosh](/sites/g/files/omnuum3641/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/servicetosociety/files/varsha.jpg?itok=a0MZExIT)