Katz is the author of three monographs: Levinas, Judaism, and the Feminine: The Silent Footsteps of Rebecca (Indiana 2003) Levinas and the Crisis of Humanism (Indiana 2013) and An Introduction to Modern Jewish Philosophy (I.B.Tauris, 2014). In addition to more than 70 journal articles and book chapters, Dr. Katz presented on the value of the humanities for TEDx TAMU (2015). A stalwart defender of the humanities, Dr. She has given more than 150 presentations nationally and internationally. She held the Liberal Arts Cornerstone Faculty Fellowship (Texas A&M 2011-2015) and a Copeland Fellowship (Amherst College 2011-12). In 2016, Philosophy Ireland, Ireland’s pre-college philosophy program, appointed her an Ambassador. In 2020, P4C Texas was awarded the APA/Philosophy Documentation Center Award for Excellence and Innovation in Philosophy Programs. Her development of the pre-college philosophy program at Texas A&M, including the philosophy summer camp, has become leading model for pre-college philosophy programs nationally and internationally. Katz launched a highly successful K-12 philosophy program, which includes three prongs: educator workshops for K-12 and university teachers/administrators, which have reached more than one hundred teachers and administrators throughout Texas training for university students in facilitating philosophical discussions with pre-college students, which includes an undergraduate course that teaches students to teach philosophy to K-12 students and developing and running a week-long philosophy summer camp (Aggie School of Athens) for 6th-12th graders, which attracts middle and high school students from communities across Texas and around the United States.
At Texas A&M, she developed and piloted courses in Jewish philosophy, Philosophy and Gender, and Pre-college Philosophy. She teaches and conducts research in two primary areas: (1) the intersection of philosophy, gender, education, and religion and (2) pre-college philosophy. She holds a Master’s of Arts in Teaching (teaching of philosophy to K-12 students) from Montclair State University and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Memphis. A Baltimore native, she majored in philosophy at UMBC. She has been on the faculty since 2006, and prior to that she was an associate professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies at Penn State University. Claire Katz is the Murray and Celeste Fasken Chair in Distinguished Teaching and Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M, where she currently serves as Associate Vice President for Faculty Affairs.
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