Dr Nathan Katz is Distinguishesd Professor in the School of International and Public Affairs, the Bhagwan Mahavir Professor of Jain Studies, Director of the Program in the Study of Spirituality, and Academic Director of the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU. The author of 15 books and more than a hundred articles, he is Editor of the Journal of Indo-Judaic Studies, has won four Fulbright grants, was a Finalist for the 2000 National Jewish Book Award, and won the 2004 Vak Devi Saraswati Saman Award from India. He has spent years studying and teaching in Afghanistan, India, Sri Lanka, and Israel, and was one of eight delegates for the historic Tibetan-Jewish dialogue hosted by H.H. the Dalai Lama in 1990, and was keynote speaker at the Third Hindu-Jewish Summitt in New York City in 2010. He is also Academic Dean of Chaim Yakov Shlomo College of Jewish Studies, an Orthodox rabbinical school in Surfside, Florida, as well as Adjunct Professor of Hinduism at Hindu University of America in Orlando. He previously taught at Naropa University, Williams College, and the University of South Florida.
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