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.