Joshua Katz | |
|---|---|
| Born | Joshua Timothy Katz September 12, 1969 |
| 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) |
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.[1] 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.[2]
In 2020, Katz wrote an essay in Quillette which included criticisms of the Black Justice League at Princeton, leading to a backlash on the Princeton campus and the rescinding of a conference invitation by the American Council of Learned Societies.[3] Katz's contentions that his views were being suppressed attracted support from conservatives and some academic freedom advocates.[4][5]
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.[6] In May 2022, he was fired after a second investigation concluded that he had lied during the 2018 sexual misconduct investigation.[5]
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