Fritze earned his BA in history at Concordia College in 1974. He obtained a master's degree from
Louisiana State University and a PhD from
Cambridge University in 1981. He has worked at
Lamar University in Beaumont and the
University of Central Arkansas in 2001 as chair of the history department. He is currently Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at
Athens State University. Fritze is the author of
Invented Knowledge: False History, Fake Science, and Pseudo-religions (2009) a book which critically examines the pseudohistoric claims of
Martin Bernal's
Black Athena,
Erich von Däniken,
Immanuel Velikovsky,
Atlantis,
Christian Identity,
Nation of Islam, and fringe related
pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact theories. According to Fritze pseudohistory is a "charlatan's playground" targeting those too "willing to suspend disbelief" and slip into an "abyss of fantasy". Fritze considers such pseudohistoric ideas to be irrational and misleading the public. The book has received positive reviews. ==Publications==