Stephen Guild Kurtz (September 9, 1926 – January 24, 2008) was an American academic and educator, who served as the eleventh principal of Phillips Exeter Academy.
Background and career
Kurtz was born on September 9, 1926, in Buffalo, New York. He graduated with an A.B. in history from Princeton University in 1948 after completing a senior thesis titled "Humanist Ideals of Education in the Renaissance."[1][2] While an undergraduate student at Princeton, Kurtz was a member of the Princeton Nassoons and the president of the Princeton University Glee Club. He later received a Ph.D. in history from the University of Pennsylvania in 1953 after completing a doctoral dissertation titled "American Politics, 1795-1800."[3] In 1961, he was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for the field of study of U.S. history.[4]