Joshua Katz (classicist)
Joshua Timothy Katz (born September 12, 1969) is an American linguist and classicist who was the Cotsen Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University until May 2022. He is a scholar on the languages, literatures, and cultures of ancient and medieval history. Currently, he is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
Joshua Katz | |
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| Born | Joshua Timothy Katz September 12, 1969 New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Former Professor at Princeton University |
| Spouse |
Solveig Lucia Gold (m. 2021) |
| Parent | Thomas J. Katz (father) |
| Awards | Marshall Scholarship (1991) Guggenheim Fellowship (2010) Visiting Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford (2010) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Yale University (BA) University of Oxford (MPhil) Harvard University (PhD) |
| Thesis | Topics in Indo-European Personal Pronouns (1998) |
| Doctoral advisor | Calvert Watkins |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Historical linguistics, Comparative linguistics, Classics |
| Institutions | Princeton University (1998–2022) Institute for Advanced Study (2002–2003) École pratique des Hautes Études (2011) University of Berlin (2015) |
In 2020, Katz wrote an essay in Quillette which included criticisms of a former black student activist group at Princeton, leading to a backlash on the Princeton campus and the rescinding of a conference invitation by the American Council of Learned Societies. Katz's contentions that his views were being suppressed attracted support from conservatives and some academic freedom advocates.
In 2021, The Daily Princetonian reported that Katz had been suspended in 2018 for engaging in a consensual sexual relationship with a student in violation of university policy. In May 2022, he was fired after a second investigation concluded that he had lied during the 2018 sexual misconduct investigation.