Honors
In 1990, the French government made him a knight in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques; in 1994, he was made an officer. In 2000, he was awarded the Ordre National du Mérite, the second-highest civilian award accorded in France, by Jacques Chirac. In 2012, he was named to the Legion d'Honneur, the highest honor that France bestows on a civilian, by French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Kritzman has received fellowships and awards from the American Councial of Learned Societies, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and the Florence Gould foundation.
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