The Chronicle’s editors salute our longtime contributor Stanley N. Katz, who, it was announced yesterday, is one of 10 winners of the 2010 National Humanities Medals, given by President Obama for outstanding achievements in history, literature, education, and cultural policy.
President emeritus of the Council of Learned Societies, Katz is a legal historian and higher-education policy expert at Princeton University. At Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Katz is lecturer with the rank of professor in public and international affairs, faculty chair of the undergraduate program, and director of the Princeton University Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies.
His fellow medalists are the authors Wendell E. Berry, Joyce Carol Oates, and Philip Roth; the historians Bernard Bailyn and Gordon S. Wood; the literary scholars Daniel Aaron, Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, and Arnold Rampersad; and the cultural historian Jacques Barzun.
Katz has contributed to The Chronicle for decades (for instance, this 2002 essay on “The Pathbreaking, Fractionalized, Uncertain World of Knowledge”) and was a founding blogger here at Brainstorm.
Beyond all that, he is also witty, humble, and just an incredibly nice guy to work with.
We are proud to have Professor Katz’s writings in our pages, and send him our best wishes and hearty congratulations on this great honor.
