Awards, Grants and Honors
Katz has been awarded four Fulbright grants for research and teaching in India and Sri Lanka.
His book, Who Are the Jews of India?, was a Finalist for the 2000 National Jewish Book Award and won the 2004 Vak Devi Saraswati Saman Award from India. His co-authored book, The Last Jews of Cochin (1993), was a Nota Bene selection of the Chronicle of Higher Education.
He won the President’s Award for Achievement and Excellence, FIU’s highest internal honor, in 2001, as well as FIU Faculty Senate Awards for Research (2005) and Service (2001). He was also named “Scholar of the Year” by the University of South Florida in 1990.
He won a statewide award for teaching excellence in 1994, and has been named a “Master Teacher” an unprecedented thirteen times by the Florida Center for Teachers of the Florida Humanities Council. He has been appointed Kauffman Professor in Global Entrepreneurship at FIU for the 2009-10 academic year.
He has also won community service awards from the Art of Living Foundation, the Sri Chinmoy Center in New York, and Congregation Ohr Chaim of Miami Beach, as well as the Veda Vidya Mitra Award from the World Association for Vedic Studies in 2008.
Katz has lectured at major universities around the world, including Harvard, Columbia, Brown, Penn State, Oxford, Vienna, Salzburg, Hebrew University, Jawaharlal Nehru University, the Royal Nepal Academy, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Wonkwang University in Korea, SUNY Stony Brook, Saskatchewan, Trinity, Amherst, Pittsburgh, University of Kansas, Alabama, Yeshiva, The National Humanities Center in North Carolina, University of Florida, Santa Barbara, Chulalongkorn in Bangkok, William & Mary, Peradeniya in Sri Lanka, Yeshiva, Alabama, Duke, Devi Ahilya University in Indore, and Jain Vishwa Bharati University in Rajasthan.
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