Jonathan Ned Katz
| Jonathan Ned Katz | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1938 |
| Residence | New York City, New York |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | Antioch College, City College of New York, New School, Hunter College |
| Occupation | Author & US (LGBT) historian |
| Employer | OutHistory |
| Known for | OutHistory, writings and research on LGBT history |
| Awards | Yale University's Brudner Prize (2003), National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's Community Service Award (1996), Publishing Triangle Whitehead Award (1995) |
Jonathan Ned Katz (born 1938) is an American historian of human sexuality who has focused on same-sex attraction and changes in the social organization of sexuality over time. His works focus on the idea, rooted in social constructionism, that the categories with which we describe and define human sexuality are historically and culturally specific, along with the social organization of sexual activity, desire, relationships, and sexual identities.
Katz graduated from The High School of Music & Art in New York City with a major in art in 1956. Since 2004, he has begun to emerge publicly as a visual artist. He went on to study at Antioch College, the City College of New York, The New School, and Hunter College. As a teenager, Katz was featured in Life magazine for his efforts to create a film version of Tom Sawyer.
Katz taught as an adjunct at Yale University, Eugene Lang College, and New York University, was the convener of a faculty seminar at Princeton University, and was a keynote speaker at Harvard University. He is a founding member of the Gay Academic Union in 1973 and the National Writers Union in 1980. He was the initiator and is the director of OutHistory.org, a site devoted to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, (LGBTQ) and heterosexual history, that went online in September 2008, and was produced in its first four years by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, an institute at the City University of New York Graduate Center, under a grant from the Arcus Foundation. Since 2012, the site has been co-directed by Katz and John D'Emilio.
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