Dr. Neil H. Katz

Academic Biography

Personal Data
Birth date:  April 15, 1945

Home address:  520 Standish Drive, Syracuse, N.Y. 13224 (June-Nov.)

                          117 Ridge Rd. Jupiter, Florida, 33477 (Dec.-May)

Telephone:  cell 315-447-4522

E-mail:  neilkatz44@gmail.com

Educational History
B.A.   St. Louis University  English Major (Magna Cum Laude) June 1967

M.A.  St. Louis University  History Major (honors)                        February, 1969

Ph.D. University of Maryland  American Studies Major                 August, 1974

Also attended University of Illinois, Rockford College, and University of Copenhagen

 as exchange student.

Certificates received from Marin Luther King Jr. Center in Atlanta, Tavistock Institute of England, Cape Cod Institute in Organizational Development and various other training centers throughout United States and Canada.

Academic Appointments
Distinguished visiting professor of practice, Department of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Nova-Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, 2004 to present

Adjunct Professor, Public Administration Program, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, 2004 to present

Adjunct Professor, Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University, 2004 to present.

Adjunct Professor, Newhouse School of Communication, Syracuse University 2002-present.

Program Manager, Executive Education Program, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, 2000-present.

Faculty Associate, Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, 2000-present.

Associate Professor Emeritus, Public Affairs Program, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, 2000-present.

Director, Conflict Resolution Consulting Group, Maxwell School, 1991-2000.

Faculty Supervisor, Campus Mediation Center, Maxwell School, 1989-2000.

Associate Director, Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts, Maxwell School, 1985-2000.

Associate Professor, Public Affairs Program, Maxwell School, 1981-2000.

Director, Summer Institute on Creative Conflict Resolution, Maxwell School, 1973-2000.

Director, Program in Nonviolent Conflict and Change, Maxwell School, 1972-2000.

Visiting Professor, University of Missouri-St. Louis Summer Institute on Conflict Resolution, 1987 and 1985.

Associate Professor, London Centre of Syracuse University, 1985.

Visiting Professor of Peace Studies, Colgate University, 1978.

Assistant Professor, Public Affairs Program, Maxwell School, 1977-1980.

Assistant Professor, Social Science Program, Maxwell School, 1974-1977.

Lecturer, College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse University, 1972-1974.

Contracts
Director or co-director of over 25 training contracts including contracts of $810,000 to train over 7000 managers of the U.S. Social Security Administration in Leadership and Learning, and $406,120 to work with twenty-two labor-management partnership councils of the U.S. Social Security Administration.

Publications
For books and book chapters, see Publications link on website home page.

The most recent of over 20 published articles include:

Conflict Management in Organizations in International Encyclopedia of Peace (forthcoming)

Interest-Based Negotiation:  An Essential Business and Communications Tool for the Public Relations Counselor (with Nancy Pattarini) in Journal of Communications Management.  Volume 12, No. 1, 2008.

Enhancing Mediator Artistry:  Multiple Frames, Spirit and Reflection in Action. The Handbook of Mediation:  Bridging Theory, Research and Practice. Margaret Herrman, Ed., Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2006.

Interest-Based Negotiation:  Increasing Satisfaction Levels Among Critical Stakeholders.

In Government Finance Review.  Volume 22, No. 5, October, 2006.

Bedroom and Boardroom:  Consulting with Organizations and Family Systems (with James Hibel).  Peace and Conflict Studies.  Volume 12, No. 1, Spring 2005.

Beyond Mediation:  The Syracuse University Experience. The Fourth R.  (Education Quarterly of th Association for Conflict Resolution.  Spring-Summer, 2004.