Katherine Elizabeth Fleming

K. E. (Katherine Elizabeth) Fleming is the Alexander S. Onassis Professor of Hellenic Culture and Civilization in the Department of History at New York University. In Spring 2016, she was announced as NYU's next Provost, and she assumed office on September 1, 2016. She specializes in the modern history of Greece and the broader Mediterranean context, with a particular focus on religious minorities.

Fleming is also a senior member of the administration of New York University. and is the second director (after Tony R. Judt) of the Remarque Institute. Fleming was associate director of the institute from 2002 until Judt's death in 2010. She was appointed Provost of NYU in April 2016 to begin in Fall 2016.

In addition to her appointments at NYU, Fleming is a permanent associate member of the faculty of the department of history of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where she runs a longstanding workshop on the history of the Mediterranean with the French historian of Italy, Gilles Pécout. Fleming has been in residence at the École Normale since 2007, although she retains her positions at NYU. Fleming has sat on the boards of numerous journals, among them the American Historical Review. Fleming is also President of the board of Piraeus University in Greece.In 2016 the government of Greece recognized her contributions to Greek culture by declaring her an honorary Greek citizen. In 2017 the University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki) awarded her an honorary doctorate in recognition of outstanding scholarship and contributions to the study of Greek history.

Fleming is the daughter of the American literary critic John V. Fleming and of the British-born Joan E. Fleming, a prominent priest in the Episcopal diocese of New Jersey and Rector Emerita of Christ Church parish, New Brunswick.

Fleming has two brothers, Richard Arthur Fleming, a travel writer; and Luke Owles Fleming, a linguistic anthropologist. She is the mother of three daughters.

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