diff --git a/configs/quick_schedules/mask_rcnn_R_50_C4_GCN_instant_test.yaml b/configs/quick_schedules/mask_rcnn_R_50_C4_GCN_instant_test.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 4c1df010c3..0000000000
--- a/configs/quick_schedules/mask_rcnn_R_50_C4_GCN_instant_test.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-_BASE_: "../Base-RCNN-C4.yaml"
-MODEL:
-  WEIGHTS: "detectron2://ImageNetPretrained/MSRA/R-50.pkl"
-  MASK_ON: True
-DATASETS:
-  TRAIN: ("coco_2017_val_100",)
-  TEST: ("coco_2017_val_100",)
-SOLVER:
-  BASE_LR: 0.001
-  STEPS: (30,)
-  MAX_ITER: 40
-  IMS_PER_BATCH: 4
-  CLIP_GRADIENTS:
-    ENABLED: True
-    CLIP_TYPE: "norm"
-    CLIP_VALUE: 1.0
-    NORM_TYPE: .inf
-DATALOADER:
-  NUM_WORKERS: 2
diff --git a/detectron2/layers/batch_norm.py b/detectron2/layers/batch_norm.py
index 0d7384ccec..320f207e22 100644
--- a/detectron2/layers/batch_norm.py
+++ b/detectron2/layers/batch_norm.py
@@ -127,7 +127,9 @@ def convert_frozen_batchnorm(cls, module):
 def get_norm(norm, out_channels):
     """
     Args:
-        norm (str or callable):
+        norm (str or callable): either one of BN, SyncBN, FrozenBN, GN;
+            or a callable that takes a channel number and returns
+            the normalization layer as a nn.Module.
 
     Returns:
         nn.Module or None: the normalization layer
diff --git a/detectron2/modeling/roi_heads/box_head.py b/detectron2/modeling/roi_heads/box_head.py
index 8d618dc0e4..6c0c2fdee7 100644
--- a/detectron2/modeling/roi_heads/box_head.py
+++ b/detectron2/modeling/roi_heads/box_head.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 from torch import nn
 from torch.nn import functional as F
 
+from detectron2.config import configurable
 from detectron2.layers import Conv2d, Linear, ShapeSpec, get_norm
 from detectron2.utils.registry import Registry
 
@@ -19,26 +20,29 @@
 @ROI_BOX_HEAD_REGISTRY.register()
 class FastRCNNConvFCHead(nn.Module):
     """
-    A head with several 3x3 conv layers (each followed by norm & relu) and
+    A head with several 3x3 conv layers (each followed by norm & relu) and then
     several fc layers (each followed by relu).
     """
 
-    def __init__(self, cfg, input_shape: ShapeSpec):
+    @configurable
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        input_shape: ShapeSpec,
+        num_conv: int,
+        conv_dim: int,
+        num_fc: int,
+        fc_dim: int,
+        conv_norm="",
+    ):
         """
-        The following attributes are parsed from config:
+        Args:
+            input_shape (ShapeSpec): shape of the input feature.
             num_conv, num_fc: the number of conv/fc layers
-            conv_dim/fc_dim: the dimension of the conv/fc layers
-            norm: normalization for the conv layers
+            conv_dim/fc_dim: the output dimension of the conv/fc layers
+            conv_norm: normalization for the conv layers. See :func:`detectron2.layers.get_norm`
+                for supported types.
         """
         super().__init__()
-
-        # fmt: off
-        num_conv   = cfg.MODEL.ROI_BOX_HEAD.NUM_CONV
-        conv_dim   = cfg.MODEL.ROI_BOX_HEAD.CONV_DIM
-        num_fc     = cfg.MODEL.ROI_BOX_HEAD.NUM_FC
-        fc_dim     = cfg.MODEL.ROI_BOX_HEAD.FC_DIM
-        norm       = cfg.MODEL.ROI_BOX_HEAD.NORM
-        # fmt: on
         assert num_conv + num_fc > 0
 
         self._output_size = (input_shape.channels, input_shape.height, input_shape.width)
@@ -50,8 +54,8 @@ def __init__(self, cfg, input_shape: ShapeSpec):
                 conv_dim,
                 kernel_size=3,
                 padding=1,
-                bias=not norm,
-                norm=get_norm(norm, conv_dim),
+                bias=not conv_norm,
+                norm=get_norm(conv_norm, conv_dim),
                 activation=F.relu,
             )
             self.add_module("conv{}".format(k + 1), conv)
@@ -70,6 +74,17 @@ def __init__(self, cfg, input_shape: ShapeSpec):
         for layer in self.fcs:
             weight_init.c2_xavier_fill(layer)
 
+    @classmethod
+    def from_config(cls, cfg, input_shape):
+        return {
+            "num_conv": cfg.MODEL.ROI_BOX_HEAD.NUM_CONV,
+            "conv_dim": cfg.MODEL.ROI_BOX_HEAD.CONV_DIM,
+            "num_fc": cfg.MODEL.ROI_BOX_HEAD.NUM_FC,
+            "fc_dim": cfg.MODEL.ROI_BOX_HEAD.FC_DIM,
+            "conv_norm": cfg.MODEL.ROI_BOX_HEAD.NORM,
+            "input_shape": input_shape,
+        }
+
     def forward(self, x):
         for layer in self.conv_norm_relus:
             x = layer(x)