Stanley Nider Katz (born April 23, 1934 in
Chicago, Illinois
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) is an American historian specializing in American legal and constitutional history and the history of
philanthropy
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. He is director of the
Princeton University
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Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies and director emeritus of the
American Council of Learned Societies
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* American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America"
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. He graduated from
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
with an
AB (1955), MA (1959), and PhD in American colonial history (1961). He taught at Harvard from 1961 to 1965, serving as
Allston Burr Senior Tutor of
Leverett House
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from 1963 to 1965. He went on to teach at the
University of Wisconsin–Madison (1965–70), the
University of Chicago Law School
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(1970–78), Princeton University (1978–1986), and the
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
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. In addition to serving as president of the
Organization of American Historians
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(1987-1988), Katz served as president of the American Council of Learned Societies from 1986 to 1997, for which he was awarded a 2010 United States
National Humanities Medal
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. Katz was elected to the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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in 1991 and the
American Philosophical Society
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in 1996.
Katz served as a board member of th
New Jersey Council for the Humanitiesref> for 37 years, including many as Chair. In recognition of his service to the organization and the humanities, NJCH announced the creation of the Stanley N. Katz Prize for Excellence in Public Humanities. Beginning in 2022, the award will be given annually to recognize an organization that has demonstrated significant engagement with and impact through community-focused public humanities work in New Jersey.
References
* "Stanley Nider Katz." ''Directory of American Scholars''. Gale, 2002. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 2 Mar. 2011.
* "Stanley Nider Katz." ''Contemporary Authors Online''. Detroit: Gale, 2001. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 2 Mar. 2011.
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1934 births
Living people
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
American male non-fiction writers
Harvard University alumni
Harvard University faculty
University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
University of Chicago Law School faculty
Princeton University faculty
National Humanities Medal recipients
Writers from Chicago
Writers from New Jersey
Writers from Wisconsin
Historians from Illinois
Members of the American Philosophical Society
Presidents of the American Council of Learned Societies