In coordination with other Committees at Fletcher, the Academic Dean and the Executive Associate Dean for Student Affairs, the Committee on the Ph.D. Program directs the doctoral program. It is the policymaking body of the Ph.D. program. The committee:
- Reviews all successfully defended Dissertation Proposals. It may approve, reject or conditionally approve any proposal pending additional information.
- Decides outcome of the following student petitions:
- extension of Ph.D. candidacy
- approval of Ph.D. dissertation proposals
- change of reader
- change of title from original proposal
- change of timing/examiner of comprehensive exams
- deferring beginning the Ph.D. Program
- reader exceptions (i.e., two non-Fletcher readers)
- reinstatement to Ph.D. degree candidacy
- transfer credit toward the 5th semester (the CSAP committee also reviews this petition)
- Determines internal and external admission to the program
- Nominates doctoral students for internal/fellowships that require school/institutional selection. Application deadlines for these awards are announced on the listserv. Nominees are drawn from the pool of applicants and not from the entire doctoral student body.
Current Membership
Membership is comprised of four professors (one of whom serves as the chair), two student representatives elected by doctoral students in the Fall, the Registrar and Director of Ph.D. Student Services. In addition, the Director of Admissions and Financial Services Laurie Hurley participates in the admissions meetings. Student members do not participate in the admissions meetings or the internal fellowship selection discussions. Faculty members and elected student representatives have voting rights on the committee.
- Chair of the Ph.D. Program: William Moomaw, Professor of International Environmental Policy
- Peter Uvin, Academic Dean and The Henry J. Leir Professor of International Humanitarian Studies
- Richard Shultz, Professor of International Politics
- Steven Block, Associate Professor of International Economics
- Daniel Drezner, Associate Professor
- Jenifer Burckett-Picker, Director of PhD Student Services
- Nora Moser McMillan, Registrar and Manager of Student Academic Programs
- Elected Student Representative: Geoffrey Gresh
- Elected Student Representative: Christof Kurz