Robin Fleming is an American medievalist and a professor of history at Boston College. She was the president of the Medieval Academy of America for 2023-2024 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.
Early life and education Fleming received her B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1977 and 1984.
Career and honors Robin Fleming has been a professor of history at Boston College since 1989.
She has been the Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard (2009–2010),"Robin Fleming", Fellows, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study a Member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2002–2003),Institute for Advanced Study, "2002-2003 Members, Visitors and Research Assistants" a Fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation (2002),Fellows, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Memorial Foundation a Fellow of the Bunting Institute at Harvard (1993–94),Joe Mathews, "Locals Named as Bunting Fellows", Harvard Crimson, July 13, 1993 full text and a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows (1986–89)."Current and Former Junior Fellows"
Fleming is a fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Royal Historical Society, the London Society of Antiquaries, and the Medieval Academy of America."2015 Fellows of the Medieval Academy", official blog, January 19, 2015
In 2022, Fleming gave the Ford Lectures at Oxford on "Dogsbodies and Dogs' Bodies: A Social and Cultural History of Roman Britain’s Dogs and People".The James Ford Lectures in British History, 2022
Fleming served as president of the Medieval Academy of America from 2023 to 2024.
Bibliography Books
Selected papers Robin Fleming, "Monastic Lands and England's Defence in the Viking Age", The English Historical Review 100:395:247–265 (April 1985)
References
External links Profile at Boston College [https://www.bc.edu/content/dam/bc1/schools/mcas/history/pdf/cv_2023-2024/Fleming-Vita-2023.pdf Curriculum vitæ]