Stanley Katz

Biography

Stanley Katz is President Emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies, the leading organization in humanistic scholarship and education in the United States. Mr. Katz graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1955 with a major in English History and Literature. He received his M.A. from Harvard in American History in 1959 and his Ph.D. in the same field from Harvard in 1961. He attended Harvard Law School in 1969-70. His recent research focuses upon the relationship of civil society and constitutionalism to democracy, and upon the relationship of the United States to the international human rights regime. He is the Editor in Chief of the recently published Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History, and the Editor Emeritus of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the United States Supreme Court. He also writes about higher education policy, and for several yars published a blog for the Chronicle of Higher Education. Formerly Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor of the History of American Law and Liberty at Princeton University, Mr. Katz is a leading expert on American legal and constitutional history, and on philanthropy and non-profit institutions. The author and editor of numerous books and articles, Mr. Katz has served as President of the Organization of American Historians and the American Society for Legal History and as Vice President of the Research Division of the American Historical Association. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Newberry Library and numerous other institutions. He also currently serves as Chair of the American Council of Learned Societies/Social Science Research Council Working Group on Cuba. Katz was for many years a member of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities.  He has been elected to membership in the American Antiquarian Society, the American Philosophical Society; as Fellow of the American Society for Legal History, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Society of American Historians.  He is a Corresponding Member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and the Cuban Academy of Sciences. He received the annual Fellows Award from Phi Beta Kappa in June, 2010. He has honorary degrees from several universities.

Katz is director of the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies.

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Areas

• Arts and Cultural Policy

• Law

• U.S. Constitutional Theory/History

• Democratization

• Civil liberties

• Higher Education Policy