| Alma Mater: | Wellesley College (B.A.) Harvard University (M.A., Ph.D.) |
| Thesis Title: | Imagining French Atlantic Slavery: A Comparison of Mnemonic Entrepreneurs and Everyday Antilleans in Metropolitan France |
| Thesis Year: | 2011 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Michèle Lamont |
| Workplaces: | Stony Brook University |
| Birth Place: | Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Birth Date: | 26 November 1981 |
| Discipline: | Sociology, Africana studies |
| Sub Discipline: | Racism, white supremacy |
Crystal Marie Fleming (born November 26, 1981) 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.
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.[1]
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.[2] [3] 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.[4] She won the 2012 Georges Lavau Dissertation Award from the American Political Science Association for an English-language dissertation on French politics.[5]
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.[6]
Fleming identifies as bisexual and queer.