Robin Fleming

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

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.[1][2]

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 been 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 served as president of the Medieval Academy of America from 2023 to 2024.[11]

Bibliography

Books

• Fleming, Robin (2021). The Material Fall of Roman Britain, 300-525 CE. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 9780812252446.
• Fleming, Robin (2011). Britain After Rome: The Fall and Rise, 400-1070. Penguin. ISBN 9780140148237.[12]
• Fleming, Robin (2004). Kings and Lords in Conquest England. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521526944.
• Fleming, Robin (1998). Domesday Book and the Law: Society and Legal Custom in Early Medieval England. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 052163038X.[13]

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

1. Graham, Ruth (October 6, 2013). "MacArthur 'genius' Robin Fleming on using archaeology to write history". Boston Globe. Retrieved 18 September 2014.
2. "Robin Fleming". MacArthur Foundation. Retrieved 18 September 2014.
3. "Robin Fleming", Fellows, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
4. Institute for Advanced Study, "2002-2003 Members, Visitors and Research Assistants" [1]
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.

External links

• Profile at Boston College