Milton Katz
Senior Professor
Bio
Dr. Milton Katz teaches classes in American history and聽literature, the Holocaust, and peace and conflict resolution.聽He is the author of three books, and over two dozen articles,聽book chapters, essays and reviews on peace and social justice聽movements in contemporary American history. He has also聽presented lectures on art of the Holocaust in educational,聽community, and religious institutions throughout the United聽States and Europe. Dr. Katz has been the recipient of聽numerous grants and awards from the National Endowment聽for the Humanities, the Missouri and Kansas Humanities聽Councils, and the Mellon and Fulbright Foundations. In 1998,聽he received the 91导航鈥檚 Special Project聽Award, the Excellence in Teaching Award in 2001, and, in聽2007, the Distinguished Achievement Award. In 2008, he received the prestigious William Rockhill Nelson Award for聽Literary Excellence by Missouri and Kansas authors in non-fiction for his book Breaking Through: John B. McLendon,聽Basketball Legend and Civil Rights Pioneer.
As a social historian, Dr. Katz鈥檚 biography of the first African American basketball coach inducted in the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame, sheds a powerful light on how sports have been one of the primary mediums for breaking down racial barriers in American society, and has inspired three documentary films on ESPN, PBS, and most recently in 2021 on CBS. The link to this latest one is below.