Stanley Nider Katz, Date of Birth
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Historian specializing in American legal and constitutional history and the history of philanthropy
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About Stanley Nider Katz
- Stanley Nider Katz (born April 23, 1934 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American historian specializing in American legal and constitutional history and the history of philanthropy.
- He is director of the Princeton University Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies and director emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies.
- He graduated from Harvard University 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 from 1963 to 1965.
- He went on to teach at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1965–70), the University of Chicago Law School (1970–78), Princeton University (1978–1986), and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
- In addition to serving as president of the Organization of American Historians (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.
- Since 2013, Katz has served as Chair of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities.
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