Purpose
The Graduate Research Steering Committee (GRSC) is tasked with reviewing applications from graduate students, and in some cases postdoctoral fellows, on internal competitions and external submissions requiring institutional nomination or endorsement. The committee also may be called upon to set, review or amend existing research funding policies set by the Graduate School or other graduate or postdoctoral fellow research issues that may arise
Membership
Each committee member serves a two-year term of service (unless otherwise noted) and is approved by the Vice President for Graduate Studies.
The 2025–26 members of the Graduate School’s Graduate Research Steering Committee are:
- Haitao Fan, Professor, Mathematics & Statistics
- Haiyan He, Assistant Professor, Biology
- Diana Owen, Professor, Communication, Culture & Technology
- Patrick O’Malley, Professor, English
- Marianna Ryshina-Pankova, Associate Professor, German
- Joe Cunningham, Associate Professor, German
- Michael Plankey, Professor, Medicine
- Irfan Nooruddin, Professor, SFS
- John Griffin, Professor, Government
- Cynthia Gordon, Associate Professor, Linguistics
- Bevan Main, Assistant Professor, Neuroscience
- Intima Alrimawi, Associate Professor, Nursing
- Rachel Barr, Professor, Psychology
- Cristina Sanz, Professor, Spanish & Portuguese
- Alfonso Morales, Associate Professor, Spanish & Portuguese
- Sona Vasudevan, Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology
- Alan Mitchell, Associate Professor, Theology & Religious Studies
- Annalisa Butticci, Assistant Professor, Theology & Religious Studies
- Patrick Forcelli, Professor, Pharmacology
- Lourdes Ortega, Professor, Department of Linguistics (Fall 2025 Only)
- Maurice Jackson, Associate Professor, History
Questions
If you have questions regarding the GRSC or wish to be considered for membership, please contact Maria Snyder (Maria.Snyder@georgetown.edu).