Stuart Z. Katz Professorship in Humanities & the Arts

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The Stuart Z. Katz Professorship in the Humanities & the Arts, 2025-2026

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 5:00 pm, FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 2025.

Established in 2017 by a generous gift from Mr. Stuart Z. Katz, the endowment supports one outstanding professorial faculty member in the Division of Humanities & the Arts for an academic year. The professorship provides up to two months of summer salary plus $10,000 to support research and creative activity.

Candidates must hold terminal degrees in their respective disciplines, be tenured professorial faculty with at least six years of service in their disciplines, and have served at least five years as a CCNY faculty member.

Applications must include the following:

1) the candidate's current curriculum vitae documenting a career of distinguished classroom teaching and scholarship (limited to 15 pages);

2) an example of the candidate's recent published scholarship (limit to one book or two articles) or creative activity;

3) a brief statement (500 words) by the candidate describing his/her current teaching and creative activity or research agenda. Please explain the current stage of your research or creative project and how the Stuart Z. Katz Professorship would assist you in its completion.

Applications for the 2025-2026 Stuart Z. Katz Professorship can be submitted electronically at https://form.jotform.com/241905923097159. Portal will be activated early in the Spring 2025 semester. Candidates may submit books or portfolios of creative activity, as appropriate, directly to the Office of the Dean.

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In the fall semester of the recipient’s year as Stuart Z. Katz Professor in the Humanities & the Arts, he or she will deliver a plenary lecture on a subject addressing his or her research and creative activity, with a focus on project(s) undertaken during the academic year of appointment.

The recipient must be available in October or November 2025 to deliver the plenary lecture.

Submit application materials HERE.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 5:00 pm, FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 2025.