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Academics

Dr. Michael Flamm

Contact Information

Office: Elliott 114
Telephone: 740-368-3634
Email: mwflamm@owu.edu

Specialty

Modern America

Education

B.A. Harvard University, M.A. and Ph.D. Columbia University

Biography

Dr. Flamm is a specialist in modern U.S. political history. He offers temporal surveys of American history since 1877 as well as specialized courses on America and Vietnam, Crime and Punishment, Women and Gender, America in the Sixties, and American Foreign Relations. He also teaches summer seminars at Columbia University in New York for the Gilder Lehrman Institute and has taught at San Andrés University in Buenos Aires as a Fulbright Senior Specialist. In 2000 he was named Faculty Member of the Year by the Greek Society and in 2006 he was the recipient of the Bishop Francis Emner Kearns Award as Teacher of the Year. He is author of Law and Order: Street Crime, Civil Unrest, and the Crisis of Liberalism in the 1960s (2005) as well as co-author of Debating the 1960s: Liberal, Conservative, and Radical Perspectives (2007) and The Chicago Handbook for Teachers (1999). He is currently writing a book on the Harlem Riot of 1964 titled In the Heat of the Summer and co-writing a book titled Debating the Reagan Presidency.

Personal Profile

Dr. Flamm is a proud Minnesotan and avid fan of the Twins and Vikings. After college he spent five years as a high school history teacher in New Jersey and New York. He currently lives in Columbus with his wife, Jennifer McNally, and their children, Austin and Alexandra. He enjoys tennis, skiing, travel, jazz, theater, and films of all kinds. When he has the time, he also enjoys reading mystery novels and historical fiction.