Career
Katznelson taught at Columbia from 1969 to 1974,at the University of Chicago from 1974 to 1983,and at The New School for Social Research from 1983 to 1994. [1] Katznelson was chair of the department of political science at the University of Chicago from 1979 to 1982 and dean of The New School from 1983 to 1989,where he taught political science and history until 1994. [3]
In 1994,Katznelson returned to Columbia,where he is the Ruggles professor of political science and history. [4] In 2012,he was named president of the Social Science Research Council. [5] In 2019,Katznelson was named interim provost at Columbia. [6] In that position,he represented management in contested negotiations with the graduate student union,a position he noted was "painful" given his "longstanding connections with the labor movement." [7] [8] As of July 1,2021,he was succeeded as provost by Mary Cunningham Boyce. [9]
Katznelson helped to launch the journal Politics &Society with Gerald Dorfman and others. He was lead editor beginning with its first issue,which appeared in 1970. He was succeeded by Margaret Levi. [1] [10] Katznelson was president of the American Political Science Association (APSA) in 2005 and 2006. [11] He previously served as president of APSA's Politics and History Section in 1992 and 1993,and as president of the Social Science History Association in 1997 and 1998. [3] He has also been a Guggenheim Fellow,and was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2000 and the American Philosophical Society in 2004. [12] Katznelson has received honorary doctorates from the New School in 1994, [13] Queens College in 2016, [14] and the University of Cambridge in 2018. [15]
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