Frederick Krantz

Ph.D. (Cornell University)

Frederick Krantz was born in New York City and educated at the Bronx High School of Science and Columbia College. He did his doctorate in late medieval and early modern European intellectual history at Cornell University. He is a specialist in Italian Renaissance, and specifically Quattrocento Florentine, intellectual history, and has published on Italian humanism between Petrarch and Machiavelli. He also did postgraduate work at Yeshiva University in Jewish history generally and in the history of anti-Semitism, specifically.

He is the founding principal of Liberal Arts College, now in its twenty-eighth year, and is also Director of the Canadian Institute for Jewish Research. He believes deeply in demanding undergraduate education, and specifically in the utility of Great Books education within a multidisciplinary Core Curriculum framework.