Richard Frohock, Ph.D.

Richard Frohock is the Associate Dean of the Honors College and a Professor of English at Oklahoma State University; he also served a two-year term as Dean of the Honors College from July 2022 to July 2024. He currently serves on the National Collegiete Honors Council committee for International Education as wel as the committee for Arts and Creativity.

Dr. Frohock has a particular interest in experiential learning, helping to build and implement an extensive program that allows honors students to earn honors credit through co-curricular involvement in leadership, performing arts, undergraduate research and professionalization opportunities. His teaching includes honors seminars in early American crime narratives; Caribbean literature and culture; and argument and rhetoric.

He has a passion for study abroad education and has taught several honors travel seminars in Europe and the Caribbean. Most recently, he taught a course on Berlin, Germany that incorporated the honors Place-as-Text curriculum and featured United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in student research assignments. Other areas of focus in Dr. Frohock's work include undergraduate research; student programming and engagement; and optimizing data management, student recordkeeping and administrative efficiencies in honors education.