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“If I felt I was being burdened and some of my colleagues are not working hard enough, I wouldn’t do it,” says Williamson, who advised six theses in the last thesis cycle.
DUS Virginie Greene wrote that the Romance Languages and Literatures Department’s policy “leaves the initiative to the student,” which she says is important because “writing a thesis is about achieving an independent project.”
Another way of increasing the number of thesis advisers available to students is to move outside the realm of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS)—by connecting thesis writers with graduate students and faculty from Harvard’s various graduate and professional schools, or even...
Philosophy Head Tutor Warren Goldfarb says he occasionally helps students find thesis advisers in other departments or even in other universities if their thesis proposals do not seem to fall within any department member’s fields of expertise.
According to Goldfarb, one student in the last thesis cycle was advised by a lecturer in the Department of the Study of Religion and he says he once convinced an MIT professor to advise a student thesis.