Education
He graduated from Harvard University with an Bachelor of Arts (1955), Master of Arts (1959), and Doctor of Philosophy in American colonial history (1961).
He graduated from Harvard University with an Bachelor of Arts (1955), Master of Arts (1959), and Doctor of Philosophy in American colonial history (1961).
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 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 (1965-1970), the University of Chicago Law School (1970-1978), Princeton University (1978–1986), and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Since 2013, Katz has served as Chair of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities.