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American historian of medieval Britain From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
Robin Fleming | |
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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 |
Fleming received her B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1977 and 1984.[2]
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]
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