| 1 | Name: | Dr. Stanley N. Katz | |
| Institution: | Princeton University | ||
| Year Elected: | 1996 | ||
| Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | ||
| Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | ||
| Residency: | Resident | ||
| Living? : | Living | ||
| Birth Date: | 1934 | ||
Stanley N. Katz is a professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and president emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies, the leading organization in humanistic scholarship and education in the United States. Educated at Harvard University, he received his Ph.D. in history in 1961. Dr. Katz is a recognized expert on American legal and constitutional history as well as philanthropy and non-profit institutions. He has served as president of the Organization of American Historians and of 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, the Copyright Clearance Center and numerous other institutions. In addition to these duties and his teaching responsibilities, he publishes frequently in professional journals such as Common Knowledge and the Chronicle of Higher Education. Stanley Katz was elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society in 1996. He was awarded the 2010 National Humanities Medal by President Obama. | |||