He wrote an undergraduate honors thesis on Ibn Khaldun under the direction of Gene Garthwaite at Dartmouth College, where he graduated summa cum laude in 2002.
His doctoral dissertation is titled The Rise of the Almohads: Islam, Identity and Belief in North Africa.
[1] In 2007, Fromherz joined the faculty of Qatar University as an assistant professor of Middle East history.
[7] In 2018, he was elected for a second term as president of AIMS and is a board member of the Council of Overseas Research Centers (CAORC).
[8] In 2022, he was named a senior Fulbright Scholar to Spain to study the life and times of the Granada polymath and historian Ibn al-Khatib.