Jonathan N. Katz is currently Professor of Political Science and Division Chair for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the California Institute of Technology. He serves as Co-Director of Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego, in 1995. He has previously been on the faculty of the University of Chicago (1998-2000) He was a visiting professor at the Universität ̈Konstanz in Germany (2003) and a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Positive Political Economy at the Harvard/MIT Data Center. He was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (2005-2006). He is the Treasurer of the Society for Political Methodology and a member of the steering committee of the USC/Caltech Center for the Study of Law and Politics (2000-present).

Katz's research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the John Randolph and Dora Haynes Foundation, the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), IBM, and the Jon M. Olin Foundation. He currently sits on the editorial board of four journals: American Journal of Political Science (2006- present), Electoral Studies (2001-present), Political Analysis (2001-present), and Political Research Quarterly (2000-present). He has wone the Pi Sigma Alpa Award (1998), the CQ Press Award (1996), and the Brooke/Cole Award.

A complete copy of his curriculum vitae may be found here.