Jack Katz
Professor of Sociology, UCLA
Department of Sociology
University of California at Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1551
office phone: (310) 825-6904; FAX: (310) 206 9838
JackKatz@soc.ucla.edu
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/katz
EDUCATION:
Northwestern University
Degree: Ph.D. (Sociology), 1976.
University of Chicago Law School
Degree: J.D., 1969.
Colgate University
Degree: B.A., 1966.
FACULTY CAREER:
Yale Law School, 1977-1979. Research Associate.
UCLA, Assistant Professor of Sociology, 1979; Associate Professor, 1982; Professor, 1989.
MISCELLANEOUS PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Russell Sage Law and Society Fellow, 1973-1975, Yale Law School.
Consulting Editor, American Journal of Sociology, 1977-1979; Associate Editor, Symbolic Interaction,
1995-1999; American Sociological Review, 2001-4.
Trustee, Law and Society Association, 1984-1986.
Consulting for university presses, law and social science journals, defense in death penalty cases.
Co-Editor, with Robert Emerson, of “Field Encounters and Discoveries,” an ethnographic book series
for the University of Chicago Press.
TEACHING SPECIALIZATIONS:
Social Interaction and Phenomenology; Ethnographic Methods; Urban Sociology.