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]

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]