Dr. Stanley Katz Named 2020 Marvin Bressler Award Recipient

Dr. Stanley Katz, a long-time Athletics Fellow and supporter of Princeton Athletics has been named the recipient of the 2020 Marvin Bressler Award which is presented to that member of the Princeton family who, through heartfelt support of the University's student-athletes and coaches, best embodies a belief in the lifelong lessons taught by competition and athletics as a complement to the overall educational mission.

The Marvin Bressler Award is presented annually as part of the Gary Walters '67 PVC Awards Banquet. This year's banquet will be held virtually on May 28. For more information on how to view the ceremony, click here.

For a full list of previous recipients of the Marvin Bressler Award, click here.

Dr. Stanley Katz h21 h80 h83 h85 has been an Athletics Fellow for the Princeton football program for the majority of Coach Bob Surace's tenure, working specifically with the quarterback position group. He has served as the thesis advisor for a number of Tiger student-athletes, including Kevin Davidson '20 (football) and Grace Baylis '20 (field hockey) this past academic year.

A lecturer with rank of professor in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Katz is a leading expert on American legal and constitutional history, and on philanthropy and non-profit institutions. His recent research focuses upon developments in American philanthropy, the relationship of civil society and constitutionalism to democracy, and upon the relationship of the United States to the international human rights regime. He is also director of the Princeton University Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies and director emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies.

Katz has served as President of the Organization of American Historians and the American Society for Legal History and as Vice President of the Research Division of the American Historical Association. Additionally, he currently serves as the Chair of the American Council of Learned Societies/Social Science Research Council Working Group on Cuba. Katz was recognized for his work with the annual Fellows Award from Phi Beta Kappa in 2010, and was presented with the National Humanities Medal by President Obama in 2011.

Katz graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1955 with a major in English History and Literature. He received his M.A. from Harvard in American History in 1959 and his Ph.D. in the same field from Harvard in 1961. He arrived to Princeton University in 1978.

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