Adviser Request, Graduate

  • At Gallatin, advising plays a crucial role in student success. When a student matriculates in our graduate program, they will be assigned a faculty adviser, an NYU professor who will work with the student to define academic and professional goals, develop an appropriate strategy for pursuing those goals, and help locate the necessary educational resources to carry out the academic plan. Given as much, although it is listed as optional, we highly recommend that you spend some time thinking about this field as part of the application process. 
  • While some of our MA students work with Gallatin faculty as their primary advisers, many of our students work with faculty from other programs and schools at NYU as their primary advisers. You may identify prospective advisers by researching the faculty in the programs and schools where you plan to take your courses (full-time and part-time faculty may serve as primary advisers) and by consulting the list of faculty on the Gallatin website (full-time, associate, and part-time faculty may all serve as advisers for M.A. students). Please include at least one Gallatin faculty member in your list. 
  • Please note that we cannot guarantee that the faculty you suggest will be available to advise you, but it is helpful to start considering potential faculty advisers as early as possible in the application process.

If you are an undergraduate student, please use the Change of Adviser Request, Undergraduate.

At Gallatin, each student develops an individualized concentration, a program of study organized around a coherent theme or set of questions and drawing on a variety of academic disciplines and professional fields. List below your proposed concentration (for example, 'the fashion industry and the female consumer').
While M.A. students design interdisciplinary programs of study, it is often the case that your adviser will represent one field among the several you hope to incorporate into your plan. Please indicate if you are interested in working with an adviser from a particular field or discipline (for example, sociology, creative writing, history, literary studies).

Adviser Choices

Please suggest up to three NYU faculty members with whom you might like to work. While some of our M.A. students work with Gallatin faculty advisers, many of our students work with faculty from other programs and schools. You may identify prospective advisers by researching the faculty in the programs and schools where you plan to take your courses and by consulting the list of faculty on the Gallatin website (full-time, associate, and part-time faculty may all serve as advisers for M.A. students). We cannot guarantee that the faculty you suggest will be available to advise you, but we will contact them on your behalf.

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