Stanley N. Katz, Lecturer with the rank of Professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, is President Emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies, the leading organization in humanistic scholarship and education in the United States.

He 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. Katz is co-editor of a book on the behavior of non-governmental peace and conflict resolution organizations with Benjamin Gidron and Yeheskel Hasenfeld – Mobilizing for Peace: Conflict Resolution in Northern Ireland, South Africa and Israel/Palestine (Oxford University Press, 2002). His current research focuses on the investigation of the constitutional reasons why the United States has had such a difficult time in participating in the international human rights system.

Formerly Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor of the History of American Law and Liberty at Princeton University, Katz is a leading expert on American legal and constitutional history. He is also active in the research field of arts and cultural policy, and currently serves as the Director of the Princeton University Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies in the Woodrow Wilson School. The author and editor of numerous books and articles, he has served as President of the Organization of American Historians and the American Society for Legal History and has been the Vice President of the Research Division of the American Historical Association. He is Editor of the Oliver Wendell Holmes History of the United States Supreme Court (11 volumes). He has completed twelve years on the Board of Southern Methodist University, and he is a trustee of the Newberry Library, the Social Science Research Council, and the International Society for Cultural Property. He is a member of the National Historic Publications and Records Commission of the National Archives.

He also currently serves as Chair of the American Council of Learned Societies/Social Science Research Council Working Group on Cuba. Katz is a member of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, the American Antiquarian Society, the American Philosophical Society; a Fellow of the American Society for Legal History, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Society of American Historians; and a Corresponding Member of the Massachusetts Historical Society. He is a Corresponding Member of the Cuban Academy of Sciences. He has honorary degrees from several universities.

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