Professor Flamm is a graduate of Harvard College (B.A. 1986) and Columbia University (Ph.D. 1998). A scholar of modern American political history, he taught a broad range of twentieth-century courses at Ohio Wesleyan University from 1998 to 2024. There he received the Welch Award for Scholarly Achievement (2022) and three teaching prizes including the university’s highest honor, the Bishop Herbert Welch Meritorious Teaching Award (2012). 

As a Fulbright Scholar and Senior Specialist, Dr. Flamm taught numerous times in Argentina. In addition, he was a faculty consultant to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the College Board, and the National Academy of Sciences. He also served on the executive board of the Organization of American Historians, the largest professional association dedicated to the teaching and study of U.S. history.

Professor Flamm is the author or co-author of five books (see below) and the creator of How 1954 Changed History, an Audible original available on Amazon. A proud Minnesotan, he is an avid fan of the Twins, Vikings, and Timberwolves. After college he spent five years as a high school history teacher in New Jersey and New York. He now teaches at Ohio State University and lives in Bexley, Ohio.

Major Publications:

In the Heat of the Summer: The New York Riots of 1964 and the War on Crime. University of
     Pennsylvania Press, 2017.

Law and Order: Street Crime, Civil Unrest, and the Crisis of Liberalism in the 1960s. Columbia
     University Press, 2005.

The Chicago Handbook for Teachers: A Practical Guide to the College Classroom (with Alan
     Brinkley et al.). University of Chicago Press, 2011.

Debating the Reagan Presidency (with John Ehrman). Rowman & Littlefield, 2009.

Debating the 1960s: Liberal, Conservative, and Radical Perspectives (with David Steigerwald).
     Rowman & Littlefield, 2007.

Current Project: 

The Politics of Purpose: Geri Joseph and Female Activism in the Age of Hubert Humphrey

When Geri Joseph died in 2023 at the age of one hundred, she was largely forgotten, even in her home state of Minnesota. But during her remarkable life, this determined daughter of Russian-Jewish immigrants and close friend of Hubert Humphrey became a prominent journalist, professional volunteer, and Democratic insider as well as the first female Jewish ambassador. Her astounding rise from humble origins to public prominence and political influence at the state and national level mirrored major developments in post-1945 American liberalism, feminism, and Judaism. Despite personal adversity and tragedy, she also helped open the door for the next generation of women activists.