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Fred M. Frohock is professor and chair of political science at the University of Miami with academic concentrations in political philosophy, law, and bioethics.

Early Life and Education
Frohock was born and raised in Key west, Florida. He attended received his B.A. (Political Science) and M.A. (International Relations) from the University of Florida.

Professional History
Frohock is the author of numerous books, papers, reviews, and articles in scholarly journals that include The American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Political Studies, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Journal of Religion, Religion, Polity, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Social Theory and Practice, and Human Rights Quarterly. His work often combines theory and field work.

He has twice been a Social Science Research Council Fellow (the second time for a year’s study in London). Has served for eight years on the University Hospital Ethics Committee in Syracuse, NY, and was one of the founders and vice presidents of the Institute for Ethics in Health Care, a nonprofit institute that served central New York for almost a decade. He originated and was an on-site director of Syracuse University’s Madrid program, and he created and chaired for 20 summers Syracuse University’s “Politics and Media” program in London. He organized and currently directs “Security, Globalization, and Human Rights: Ideals and Realities,” a summer study abroad program in London for the University of Miami. In 2002 he was awarded a Chancellor’s Citation by Syracuse University for Exceptional Academic Achievement. He is currently a member of the University of Miami Ethics Faculty.

In 1996, Dr. Frohock and Polly Bennell were awarded a grant for the purpose of collecting and preserving information about the life of the noted psychic and parapsychologist, Dr. Alex Tanous.

Books and Monographs

 * Beyond: On Life After Death (University Press of Kansas, 2010)
 * Bounded Divinities: Sacred Discourses in Pluralist Democracies (Palgrave Macmillan, September 2006)
 * Lives of the Psychics: The Shared Worlds of Science and Mysticism (University of Chicago Press, June 2000)
 * Public Reason: Mediated Authority in the Liberal State (Cornell University Press, Fall 1999)
 * Healing Powers: Alternative Medicine, Spiritual Communities, and the State - Morality and Society Series (University of Chicago Press, Fall 1992) — paperback edition published in June, 1995
 * Rational Association, (Syracue University Press, 1987)
 * Special Care: Medical Decisions at the Beginning of Life, (University of Chicago Press, July 1986)
 * Abortion: A Case Study in Law and Morals (Contributions in Political Science), (Greenwood Press, Sept. 1983)
 * Public Policy: Scope and Logic, (Prentice Hall, May 1979)
 * Normative Political Theory (Prentice Hall, April 1974)
 * The Nature of Political Inquiry (Dorsey, 1970)

Articles

 * “An Alternative Model of Political Reasoning,” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice (February 2006)
 * “Sacred Texts,”Religion 33 (January 2003), pp. 1-21
 * “Moving Lines and Variable Criteria: Differences/Connections Between Allopathic and Alternative Medicine,” invited article as end piece in the September 2002 issue of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science devoted to alternative medicine
 * “Words and Things: Religious and Political Domains,” The Journal of Religion (July, 2002)
 * "The Boundaries of Public Reason," American Political Science Review (Dec. 1997)
 * "Conceptions of Persons," Social Theory and Practice (Spring 1997)