He has also taught at the School of Visual Arts and Baruch College before joining the faculty at Parsons. He has won numerous awards, including a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. He is also an illustrator, designer, and author of five books, Cheap Novelties: The Pleasure of Urban Decay ( 1991), Julius Knipl Real Estate Photographer (1996), The Jew of New York (1998), Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: The Beauty Supply District (2000), and most recently, The Cardboard Valise (2011). Katchor currently publishes a monthly strip in Metropolis magazine.