Princeton’s Journey to Fire a Tenured Professor

May 28

Multiple Sources

There are too many articles to post them all. Too many who’ve followed the story of Joshua Katz, a tenured Classics professor at Princeton who wrote a controversial piece in July 2020 for Quillette, was accused of being a racist by prominent faculty members, had his name affixed to Princeton’s To Be Known and Heard virtual “wall of shame,” and was then fired over an already-adjudicated case around a consensual relationship he’d had with a student. New details surrounding the relationship were exhumed in February 2021, seven months after the Quillette article and three years after Princeton’s investigation and disciplining of Katz over the relationship, which included one year without pay.

Below are are a selection of articles and letters. The Princetonian has been covering the issues surrounding Katz in depth since his July 2020 Quillette article and the allegations that resurfaced in February 2021.

Princeton Betrays Its Principles (Chronicle of Higher Ed, 7/5/22)

Of Dissent and its Discontents (Princetonians for Free Speech, June 2022)

In defense of Joshua Katz: A mother-in-law’s manifesto (Spectator World, 6/4/22)

Firing of Princeton University Professor Raises Questions Over Free Expression and Due Process (Pen America, 5/26/22)

What Princeton Did to My Husband (Common Sense, 5/26/22)

The Disgraceful Firing of Joshua T. Katz (Quillette, 5/26/22)

Shame on You, the New York Times (The Princetonian, 5/25/22)

Princeton Fires Tenured Professor in Campus Controversy (NYT, 5/23/22, updated from 5/19/22 piece)

Progressive Social Panic at Yale and Princeton (Quillette podcast with Aaron Sibarium, 5/23/22)

Double Jeopardy: Princeton Prepares To Axe Star Professor (Aaron Sibarium, Washington Free Beacon, 5/23/22)

Princeton Fed Me to the Cancel Culture Mob (Joshua Katz, WSJ, 5/20/22)

We are all Katz and Sabatini (Rod Dreher, The American Conservative, 5/20/22) (See Sabatini story)