Robin Fleming
Robin Fleming is a medieval historian 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 | |
|---|---|
| Citizenship | United States |
| 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 |
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 recipient of awards honoring her groundbreaking research: Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard (2009–2010),[3] Member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2002–2003),[4] Fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation (2002),[5] Fellow of the Bunting Institute at Harvard (1993–94),[6] and 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
- 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
- Graham, Ruth (October 6, 2013). "MacArthur 'genius' Robin Fleming on using archaeology to write history". Boston Globe. Retrieved 18 September 2014.
- "Robin Fleming". MacArthur Foundation. Retrieved 18 September 2014.
- "Robin Fleming", Fellows, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
- Institute for Advanced Study, "2002-2003 Members, Visitors and Research Assistants"
- Fellows, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Memorial Foundation
- Joe Mathews, "Locals Named as Bunting Fellows", Harvard Crimson, July 13, 1993 full text
- "Current and Former Junior Fellows"
- "Faculty (Robin Fleming)". Boston College. Retrieved 2015-01-18.
- "2015 Fellows of the Medieval Academy", official blog, January 19, 2015
- The James Ford Lectures in British History, 2022
- "Governance Officers and Councillors - The Medieval Academy of America". www.medievalacademy.org. Retrieved 2023-06-05.
- Shippey, Tom (17 March 2011). "Tom Shippey reviews 'Britain after Rome' by Robin Fleming". London Review of Books. Retrieved 18 September 2014.
- 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.