Crystal Marie Fleming


Crystal Marie Fleming is an American sociologist and author. She is full professor of sociology and Africana studies at Stony Brook University. Fleming is the author/editor of four books about race and white supremacy.

Early life and education

Crystal Marie Fleming was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She was raised by her mother in a religious environment and her family belonged to a black Pentecostal church.
Fleming graduated in 2004, magna cum laude, with a Bachelor of Arts in sociology and French from Wellesley College. She completed a senior thesis titled Performing Blackness: Symbolic Boundaries and Aesthetic Distinctions among Spoken Word Poets in Boston. She obtained a Master of Arts in sociology in 2007 at Harvard University. At the same institution, Fleming earned a Doctor of Philosophy in sociology in 2011. Her dissertation was titled Imagining French Atlantic Slavery: A Comparison of Mnemonic Entrepreneurs and Everyday Antilleans in Metropolitan France. Fleming's doctoral advisor was Michèle Lamont. She won the 2012 Georges Lavau Dissertation Award from the American [Political Science Association] for an English-language dissertation on French politics.

Career

Fleming is Full Professor of Sociology, Africana Studies and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University. She was previously a visiting professor at Charles de Gaulle University – Lille III in 2015. She is the author of two books: Resurrecting Slavery: Racial Legacies and White Supremacy in France and How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy and the Racial Divide.

Personal life

Fleming is bisexual and queer.

Selected works

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