Stanley Katz,
lecturer with the rank of professor in public and international
affairs, has been awarded the American Historical Association's
Troyer-Steele Anderson Prize.
The prize is presented every five years to an individual deemed to have
made an exemplary contribution to the advancement of the mission of the
association, the largest historical society in the United States.
An authority on American legal and constitutional history, Katz is
president emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies, the
leading organization in humanistic scholarship and education in the
country. His recent research focuses upon the relationship of civil
society and constitutionalism to democracy, and upon the relationship
of the United States to the international human rights regime.
Katz, a Princeton faculty member since 1978, chairs the undergraduate program in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and directs the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies.
