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Crystal M. FlemingGraduate Student in SociologyBiographical NoteCrystal M. Fleming is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology, a Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and a graduate student affilliate at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University. Fleming's research examines issues relating to cultural sociology, comparative race and the public sphere, with a special focus on France and the United States. Her masters thesis examined the social and political discourse of African American slam poets in predominately black and predominately white venues. For her dissertation, Fleming is analyzing the commemoration of the transatlantic slave trade in contemporary France. Born in Tennessee and raised near Philadelphia, Fleming graduated magna cum laude from Wellesley College with degrees in French and Sociology. Her work has been published in the Du Bois Review, Poetics and the African American National Biography. In addition to her dissertation research, Fleming has served as an intern at UNESCO for the "Slave Route Project" and is currently a member of two interrelated research teams with Michèle Lamont, including the NSF-funded "African American Responses to Racism and Discrimination", as well as "A Comparative Study of Responses to Discrimination by Stigmatized Groups", funded by the Weatherhead Center. From 2006 until 2007, Fleming was President of the Graduate Student Council of the Graduate School of Arts Sciences, representing over 50 Harvard Ph.D. programs. She is the co-founder and coordinator of the first University-Wide Day of Service at Harvard University and a 2007 recipient of a Certificate of Distinction in Teaching. From 2007 until summer 2009, Fleming was a visiting student at Sciences Po (Paris). She has appeared regularly in the French media, including such outlets as Canal+, TF1, France24, France-O, BFM TV, and Public Senat, to discuss issues related to politics, race, discrimination and anti-racism in France and the United States.
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