Boston Area Woman Gets “Genius Grant”

Via Patch.com we’ve learned of a medieval historian who teaches at Boston College, lives in Newton, Massachusetts, and has just been selected for a MacArthur Fellowship; or “genius grant,” as many have it.

Robin Fleming, the genius in question, has focused her studies on Britain in the centuries during the reign and fall of the Roman Empire. The embedded video explains a bit more.

You can also learn more about Robin and her work from visiting her PeekYou profile; either by clicking on her highlighted name in the text above, or searching for her directly on PeekYou.