Katherine Fleming#
| Membership Number: | 7448 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Elizabeth_Fleming |
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Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 CEO and President, The J. Paul Getty Trust
- 2022 Provost Emerita, New York University
- 2016 - 2022 Provost, New York University
- 2019 - 2024 Co-Founder, Co-Director and Co-Curator https://www.istorima.org
, 14,700,000€ grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation in support of large-scale oral history and jobs-creation project in Greece. Co-PI (with Sofia Papaioannou). 55,000 oral histories collected ; 1,500 trainee field reporters
- 2012 - 2016 Deputy Provost, New York University
- 2007 - 2012 Vice Chancellor & Senior Vice Provost, New York University
- 2012 - 2016 Presudebt, Board of Directors, University of Piraeus (Greece)
- 2010 - 2016 Director, Remarque Institute, New York University
- 2007 - 2013 Professeur Associé au Département d’histoire, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
- 2007 - 2011 Directrice, Institut Remarque, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
- 2004 - 2010 Associate Director, Remarque Institute, New York University
- 2005 - 2009 Director, A.S. Onassis Program for Hellenic Studies, New York University
- 2005 - 2007 Director, Center for European & Mediterranean Studies, New York University
- 2007 A.S. Onassis Professor of Hellenic Studies & Civilization, New York University
- 2007 Associate, Department of Hebrew & Judaic Studies, New York University
- 1999 Associate, Department of Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies, New York University
- 2004 - 2007 Associate Professor of History & Hellenic Studies, New York University
- 1998 - 2004 Assistant Professor of History & Hellenic Studies, New York University
- 1996 - 1998 Lecturer, Department of History, UCLA
- 1995 - 1996 Lecturer, Department of History, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles
- 1996 Visiting Assistant Professor, Deep Springs College, Deep Springs, CA
- 1994 - 1995 Lecturer, Department of Religion, UC Riverside
- 1992 - 1993 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of History, UC Berkeley
- 1990 - 1991 Instructor, ESL, California State University, San Bernardino
Fields of Scholarship
- Historical memory
- Nationalism
- Jewish history
- Greek history
- Religion
- Mediterranean history
- Oral history
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Commadeur, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, French Republic
- 2024 Honorary Doctorate, Neapolis University of Cyprus, Paphos, Cyprus
- 2023 Honorary Doctorate, Universitatea Crestina Dimitrie Cantemir, Bucharest, Romania
- 2022 Commander of the Order of Beneficence of the Hellenic Republic (Τάγμα της Ευποιΐας)
- 2022 The Lord Byron Medal, Society for Hellenism & Philhellenism (Mετάλλιο Lord Byron)
- 2021 Elected Member, American Academy of Arts & Sciences
- 2019 Chevalier, Legion of Honor, French Republic
- 2018 Honorary Doctorate, School of History, Translation & Interpretation, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece
- 2017 Honorary Doctorate, Department of International and European Studies, School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts, University of Macedonia, Greece
- 2017 Global Ambassador for the City of Marathon, Greece
- 2015 Honorary Greek Citizenship, Hellenic Republic
- 2010 Prix Alberto Benveniste, École Pratique des Hautes Études, France (for Greece – A Jewish History)
- 2009 National Jewish Book Award (for Greece – A Jewish History)
- 2009 The Runciman Award (for Greece – A Jewish History)
- 2009 Honorable Mention, Edmund Keeley Book Prize (for Greece – A Jewish History)
- 2008 - 2009 Gerda Henkel Stiftung (Düsseldorf) Research Scholarship




