Robin Fleming

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Robin Fleming
Education University of California, Santa Barbara (BA, PhD)
Awards MacArthur Fellow (2013)
Scientific career
FieldsMedieval history
Institutions Boston College
Doctoral advisor C. Warren Hollister
Other academic advisorsDenis Bethell, Harold Drake

Robin Fleming is an American medievalist and a professor of history at Boston College. She is the president of the Medieval Academy of America and a 2013 MacArthur Fellow. She has written several books focusing on the people of Roman Britain and early medieval Britain, using both archaeological evidence and written records. [1] [2]

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Early life and education

Fleming received her B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1977 and 1984. [2]

Career and honors

She has received the Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard (2009–2010), [3] a Member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2002–2003), [4] a Fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation (2002), [5] a Fellow of the Bunting Institute at Harvard (1993–94), [6] and a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows (1986–89). [7]

She is a fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Royal Historical Society, the London Society of Antiquaries, [8] and the Medieval Academy of America. [9]

In 2022, she gave the Ford Lectures at Oxford on "Dogsbodies and Dogs' Bodies: A Social and Cultural History of Roman Britain’s Dogs and People". [10]

She is serving as the president of the Medieval Academy of America in 2023-2024. [11]

Bibliography

Books

Selected papers

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References

  1. Graham, Ruth (October 6, 2013). "MacArthur 'genius' Robin Fleming on using archaeology to write history". Boston Globe . Retrieved 18 September 2014.
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  3. "Robin Fleming", Fellows, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
  4. Institute for Advanced Study, "2002-2003 Members, Visitors and Research Assistants"
  5. Fellows, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Memorial Foundation
  6. Joe Mathews, "Locals Named as Bunting Fellows", Harvard Crimson , July 13, 1993 full text
  7. "Current and Former Junior Fellows"
  8. "Faculty (Robin Fleming)". Boston College. Retrieved 2015-01-18.
  9. "2015 Fellows of the Medieval Academy", official blog, January 19, 2015
  10. The James Ford Lectures in British History, 2022
  11. "Governance Officers and Councillors - The Medieval Academy of America". www.medievalacademy.org. Retrieved 2023-06-05.
  12. Shippey, Tom (17 March 2011). "Tom Shippey reviews 'Britain after Rome' by Robin Fleming". London Review of Books . Retrieved 18 September 2014.
  13. Fischer, Katherine Drew (Winter 1999). "Domesday Book and the Law: Society and Legal Custom in Early Medieval England (review)". Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 30 (3): 498–499.