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.
[2] 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).
[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".