Mind / Brain / Behavior -- Interfaculty Initiative at Harvard University

MBB Faculty                        


The following Mind/Brain/Behavior Affiliates include Faculty Fellows, scholars in the various committees and working groups and faculty from participating concentration tracks. If you are a Harvard University faculty member, who is interested in joining MBB, please contact any member of our governance or staff.

John Assad

Associate Professor of Neurobiology, HMS

Mahzarin Banaji

Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, FAS;
Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at Radcliffe

Cedric Boeckx 
Standing Committee

Assistant Professor of Linguistics, FAS

Richard Born
Steering Committee

Professor of Neurobiology, HMS

Randy Buckner
Steering Committee
Standing Committee

Professor of Psychology, FAS;
Lecturer on Radiology, HMS-MGH

Susan Carey

Henry A. Morss, Jr. and Elisabeth W. Morss Professor of Psychology, FAS

Alfonso CaramazzaDaniel and Amy Starch Professor of Psychology, FAS
Patrick CavanaghProfessor of Psychology, FAS

Verne Caviness
Steering Committee
Standing Committee

Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Child Neurology and Mental Retardation, HMS-MGH

Gennaro Chierchia
Steering Committee
Standing Committee

Haas Foundations Professor of Linguistics, FAS

John Dowling
Steering Committee,
Co-Chair of
Standing Committee

Gordon and Llura Gund Professor of Neurosciences & Professor of Ophthalmology (Neuroscience), HMS

Peter Ellison
Standing Committee

John Cowles Professor of Anthropology, FAS;
Curator of Human Biology in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, FAS

Florian Engert
Standing Committee

Associate Professor in Molecular and Cellular Biology & Tutor in Biochemical Sciences, FAS

Nancy Etcoff

Clinical Instructor in Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, HMS-MGH

Joshua Fineberg
Standing Committee

John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, FAS

Nadine Gaab

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, HMS

Kurt Fischer
Standing Committee

Charles Bigelow Professor of Education, GSE

Albert Galaburda
Steering Committee
Standing Committee

Emily Fisher Landau Professor of Neurology, HMS-Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Howard Gardner
Steering Committee
Standing Committee

The John H and Elisabeth A Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, GSE

Peter Godfrey-Smith
Steering Committee
Standing Committee

Professor of Philosophy, FAS

Joshua Greene
Standing Committee

Assistant Professor of Psychology, FAS

Benedict H. Gross
Standing Committee ex officio
George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Mathematics, FAS;
Dean of Harvard College, HU
Barbara GroszHiggins Professor of Natural Sciences, FAS;
Acting Dean and Dean of Science, Radcliffe Institute
J. Richard HackmanEdgar Pierce Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology, FAS; 
Member of the Faculty at the John F Kennedy School of Government

David Haig

George Putnam Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, FAS

Anne Harrington
Steering Committee
Standing Committee

Harvard College Professor & Professor of the History of Science, FAS

C.T. James HuangProfessor of Linguistics, FAS

Marc Hauser
Co-Chair of
Steering Committee,
Co-Director of MBB,
Standing Committee

Harvard College Professor & Professor of Psychology, FAS

Gene HeymanLecturer on Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, HMS-McLean Hospital
Jill HooleyProfessor of Psychology, FAS
Steven E. HymanProvost, HU; 
Professor of Neurobiology, HMS
Jerome KaganDaniel and Amy Starch Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, FAS

Sean Kelly 
Standing Committee

Professor of Philosophy, FAS

Cheryl Denise Knott
Standing Committee

Associate Professor of Anthropology, FAS

Stephen KosslynJohn Lindsley Professor of Psychology, FAS

Edward Kravitz
Standing Committee

George Packer Berry Professor of Neurobiology, HMS

David Laibson
Steering Committee
Standing Committee

Professor of Economics, FAS

Jeffrey Lichtman
Steering Committee
Standing Committee

Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology & Tutor in Biochemical Sciences, FAS

Margaret S. Livingstone

Professor of Neurobiology, HMS

Richard McNally
Standing Committee

Professor of Psychology, FAS

Markus MeisterJeff C. Tarr Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, FAS
Jason Mitchell
Standing Committee
Assistant Professor of Psychology, FAS

Ken Nakayama

Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology, FAS

Charles Nelson

Professor of Pediatrics, HMS; Member of Faculty, GSE

Andrew Nevins

Assistant Professor of Linguistics, FAS

Bernhard NickelAssistant Professor of Philosophy, FAS

Martin Nowak

Professor of Mathematics and of Biology & Director of the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, FAS

Bence Olveczky
Standing Committee

Assistant Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, FAS

Avi J. Pfeffer
Standing Committee

Associate Professor of Computer Science on the Gordon McKay Endowment, FAS

Naomi Pierce
Steering Committee
Standing Committee

Sidney A. and John H. Hessel Professor of Biology and Curator of Lepidoptera, FAS; Senior Fellow of the Society of Fellows, FAS

Paul Pietroski

Visiting Professor of Philosophy, FAS

Steven Pinker
Standing Committee

Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, FAS
Maria PolinskyProfessor of Linguistics, FAS

Daniel Pollen

Associate of the Department of Psychology, FAS

R. Clay Reid
Steering Committee

Professor of Neurobiology, HMS

Alvin Roth

George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration, HBS;
George Gund Professor of Economics, FAS

Maryellen RuvoloProfessor of Anthropology, FAS

Joshua R. Sanes
Standing Committee

Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology & Tutor in Biochemical Sciences, FAS

Elaine ScarryWalter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, FAS
Daniel SchacterWilliam R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology, FAS

Stuart Shieber

James O. Welch, Jr. and Virginia B. Welch Professor of Computer Science, FAS;
Benjamin White Whitney Scholar, Radcliffe

Susanna Siegel
Standing Committee

Professor of Philosophy, FAS

Alison Simmons

Professor of Philosophy, FAS

Elizabeth Spelke
Co-Chair of
Steering Committee,
Co-Director of MBB,
Standing Committee

Marshall L. Berkman Professor of Psychology, FAS

Garrett Stanley

Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering on the Gordon McKay Endowment, HMS; Member of the Faculty of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, FAS

Robert Stickgold
Standing Committee

Associate Professor of Psychiatry, HMS-Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Alan Stone

Touroff-Glueck Professor of Law and Psychiatry, HLS

Mark Tramo
Steering Committee
Standing Committee

Assistant Professor of Neurology, HMS-MGH

Leslie ValiantT. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, FAS

Richard W. Wrangham
Co-Chair of
Standing Committee

Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology & Harvard College Professor, FAS



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