Katherine E. Fleming

University of California, Berkeley, PhD 1995

University of Chicago, MA 1989

Barnard College, BA 1988

Modern Greek history, Mediterranean history, religion and identity

Katherine E. Fleming is the Alexander S. Onassis Professor of Hellenic Culture & Civilization in the Department of History and in the Onassis Program for Hellenic Studies.  Her work is primarily concerned with the emergence of the Modern Greek state over the course of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the particular role played in it by changing attitudes towards religious affiliation.  She is currently co-PI on a major oral history project in Greece, supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.

Fleming has served FAS as Associate Director and then Director of the Remarque Institute, as Director of the Center for Mediterranean & European Studies, and as Director of the A.S. Onassis Program for Hellenic Studies.  She is currently Provost of the University.  

From 2007-2011 Fleming was in residence at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, where she held an Associate Professor position in the Department of History.  She currently sits on the Administrative Board of the Chancellerie des Universites de Paris.

In Greece, Fleming served as President of the Board of the University of Piraeus (2012-2016), and she holds honorary doctorates from the University of Macedonia and Ionian University.   She was awarded Honorary Greek Citizenship by the Hellenic Republic in 2015.

“ ‘To Die Like True Greeks,’ The Last Will and Testament of Marcel Natzari,” in Testimonies of Resistance, Dominic P. Williams and Nicholas Chare, eds. (Berghahn, 2019).

“Grey Zones,” in The Holocaust in Greece, Giorgos Antoniou and Dirk Moses, eds. (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

“An Acropolis in Jerusalem: Ironies and Reversals in Greek Jewish History” in Archeiotaxio, Vol. 19, (Greece: Contemporary Social History Archives [ASKI], December 2017).

Review of Kostas Kostis. History's Spoiled Children: the Formation of the Modern Greek State (London: Hurst, 2018), in European History Quarterly, Vol. 49, No. 1 (January, 2019).

Review of Sedivy, Miroslav. Crisis Among the Great Powers: The Concert of Europe and the Eastern Question (I.B. Tauris, 2017), in The Slavic Review, Vol. 77, No. 3, (October, 2017).

Review of Cohen, Jeremy. A Historian in Exile: Solomon ibn Verga, Shevet Yehudah, and the Jewish-Christian Encounter (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016), in The Medieval Review, 17.10.02 (2017).

Review of Theodore Zervas, The Making of a Modern Greek Identity: Education, Nationalism, and the Teaching of a Greek National Past (New York, East European Monographs, 2012), in European History Quarterly, Vol. 47, No. 3 (July, 2017).

Review of Sarah Abrevaya Stein, Extraterritorial Dreams: European Citizenship, Sephardi Jews, and the Ottoman Twentieth Century.  (Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2016) in American Historical Review, Vol. 122, No. 2 (April, 2017).