About

Benjamin Frommer (Ph.D., Harvard, 1999) is an Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University. His research primarily focuses on Central European history, with particular interest in legal and criminal history, the Holocaust, and Jewish history in the context of Nazi-occupied territories. He is the author of 'National Cleansing: Retribution against Nazi Collaborators in Postwar Czechoslovakia,' which examines postwar retribution processes, and he is a co-editor of 'Intermarriage from Central Europe to Central Asia: Mixed Families in the Age of Extremes.' His current book project, 'The Ghetto without Walls,' explores the wartime destruction of an integrated and intermarried Jewish community in the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Frommer's research and writing have been supported by notable institutions such as the American Council of Learned Societies, the Fulbright Program, and the Masaryk Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He has received several awards, including the Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching Award and held distinguished professorships, including the Wayne V. Jones Research Professorship and the Charles Deering McCormick Professorship of Teaching Excellence. From 2013 to 2016, he served as the inaugural Director of the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University. His scholarly work includes contributions to understanding the Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia, intermarriage in Central Europe, and the history of Jewish life in the region.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Law
• Ethnology
• History
• Sociology
• Economic history
• Gender studies
• Geography

Selected publications

• <i>The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt</i> Anna Hájková

  Holocaust and Genocide Studies · 2026-03-17

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• Searching for Entanglement: Roma and Jews in Dismembered Czechoslovakia during World War II

  Journal of Genocide Research · 2025-10-02

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• Parallel Fates? Roma and Jews in the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia

  Journal of Genocide Research · 2025-10-02

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• On Behalf of the Undergraduates

  Journal of Austrian-American History · 2023-05-01

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  Abstract István Deák was a gifted teacher of undergraduates as well as graduate students. In this essay, two Columbia College alumni who were inspired to become historians because they took classes with István as undergraduates remember his inspiring presence in the classroom.

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• 15. Getting the Small Decree: Czech National Honor in the Aftermath of the Nazi Occupation

  Berghahn Books · 2022-10-01

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• Chapter 3 HONORARY CZECHS AND GERMANS Petitions for Aryan Status in the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia

  Berghahn Books · 2022-09-27 · 1 citations

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• Acknowledgements

  Manchester University Press eBooks · 2022

  • Political Science
  • History
  • Political Science

  A collection of essays about the Colonial Medical Service of Africa in which a group of distinguished colonial historians illustrate the diversity and active collaborations to be found in the untidy reality of government medical provision. The authors present important case studies in a series of essays covering former British colonial dependencies in Africa, including Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zanzibar. These studies reveal many new insights into the enactments of colonial policy and the ways in which colonial doctors negotiated the day-to-day reality during the height of Imperial rule in Africa. The book provides essential reading for scholars and students of colonial history, medical history and colonial administration.

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• Chapter 6. The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia

  University of Pennsylvania Press eBooks · 2021-08-02

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• Intermarriage from Central Europe to Central Asia: Mixed Families in the Age of Extremes

  University of Nebraska Press eBooks · 2020 · 2 citations

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  • Political Science
  • Sociology
  • Gender studies

  "Edgar and Frommer bring together international and interdisciplinary scholarship to analyze interethnic and interracial marriage in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and Central Asia."

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• Honorary Czechs and Germans:

  Berghahn Books · 2020 · 1 citations

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  • Political Science
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Frequent coauthors

• John Bushnell

  16 shared

• Daniel Lee

  Nanyang Technological University

  16 shared

• Jan Zwar

  College of Wooster

  16 shared

• Ed Muir

  College of Wooster

  16 shared

• Henri Lauzière

  College of Wooster

  16 shared

• Sarah Maza

  Northwestern University

  16 shared

• Paula Blaskovits

  The Ohio State University

  16 shared

• Alan Beyerchen

  College of Wooster

  16 shared

Labs

• Material History LabPI

Awards & honors

• Weinberg College Distinguished Teaching Award (2007)
• Wayne V. Jones Research Professorship in History (2010-2012)
• Charles Deering McCormick Professorship of Teaching Excellen…
• Inaugural Director of the Holocaust Educational Foundation o…