Robert Frodeman writes on environmental philosophy and public policy, the philosophy of science and technology, and the future of the university.

 

A graduate of St Louis University (history and philosophy, 1981), possessing a PhD in Philosophy from Penn State (1988) and a MS in Climate Science from CU-Boulder (1996), Frodeman is the author or editor of 17 books and more than 150 articles, and has been awarded more than 5 million dollars in grants.

 

Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity at the University of North Texas (2008), he has also held academic positions at the University of Colorado and the Colorado School of Mines. He also ran the Socrates Untenured series at the journal Issues in Science and Technology from 2017 - 2021.

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In the fall of 2023 Frodeman was a Fulbright Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Turku, Finland, where he conducted research on the future of the university. In the fall of 2025 he will be a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Uppsala, Sweden.

 

Frodeman currently has a contract with Oxford University Press to produce an edited volume on the future of the university and of knowledge production more generally (as co-editor with Christine Gerrard of the University of Oxford). 

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Frodeman and his wife live in Hoback, Wyoming.​