Kateb earned his A.B., A.M. and Ph.D. at
Columbia University and was a
Junior Fellow at
Harvard University. His PhD dissertation, defended in 1956, was titled "The Political and Social Thought of
Simone Weil (1909-1943)." He then taught at
Amherst College for thirty years before joining the faculty at
Princeton in 1987. As a member of the executive committee of the University Center for Human Values he was involved with the search committee that appointed the Australian philosopher
Peter Singer to a chair in
bioethics at
Princeton in 1999. Kateb is a member of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has also served as vice president of the American Society of Political and Legal Philosophy and president of the New England Political Science Association. He has also served as a member of the editorial board or consulting editor of the
Journal of the History of Ideas, the
Library of America, Alternative Futures, the
American Political Science Review,
Political Theory, and
Raritan Quarterly Review. He is a recipient of the Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities from
Princeton. He retired from teaching in 2002. == Research ==