Department of History

Larry Frohman

Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1992). Director, Social Studies Education Program. I will be on leave until February 2010. For information about the social studies program, please contact Prof. Charles Backfish.

E-Mail

lfrohman@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Office

SBS S-651

Phone

631-632-7686

Fax

631-632-9847

Research Interests

Modern Europe (especially Germany and France), welfare and social policy, intellectual history, historiography. My next project will be a study of information, privacy, surveillance, and civil liberties in postwar Germany.

I serve as director of the Social Studies Education Program and as book review editor for Social History.  In recent semesters I have taught surveys of early modern and modern Europe, historiography, foundations of education, and social studies methods.

Publications

Poor Relief and Welfare in Germany from the Reformation to World War I (Cambridge University Press, 2008). The book analyzes the changing cultural construction of need and normality in Germany from the end of the 1400s through 1918, explores the impact of assistance strategies on the citizenship rights of needy and endangered populations, and reassesses the usefulness of social discipline as master concept for studying welfare state formation.



"The Break-up of the Poor Laws - German Style: Progressivism and the Origins of the Welfare State, 1900-1918," Comparative Studies in Society and History 50:4 (October 2008), 981-1009.

 “Prevention, Welfare and Citizenship: The War on Tuberculosis and Infant Mortality in Germany, 1900-1930,” Central European History 39 (2006), 431-81

"Neo-Stoicism and the Transition to Modernity in Wilhelm Dilthey's Philosophy of History," Journal of the History of Ideas (April 1995), 263-87.

"NCSS Standards and the History Major: Are They Really Irreconcilable?” AHA Perspectives (September 2006).