I completed my Ph.D. dissertation in US History at the University of Newcastle, Australia, in 2016. Previously, I received a Bachelor of Arts from La Trobe University and a Master of Arts from The University of Melbourne, where I wrote a thesis on Martin Luther King Jr. and the FBI. My research interests have long been focused on King, the Civil Rights Movement, and social and political movements more generally. I have publish my research in leading academic journals like the Journal of African American History and Journal of American Studies and won the Maria Stewart Prize for the best journal article in Black Intellectual History, awarded by the African American Intellectual History Society in 2019. In 2022, the University of North Carolina Press published Living the Dream. I live in Sydney, Australia, and lecture in US History at the University of New South Wales. I actively seek opportunities to engage the public. I have spoken online for the US National Archives, 13 January 2023, and have had opinion pieces published by the Sydney Morning Herald, Canberra Times, and Huffington Post. I have also been interviewed on Radio National, ABC Sydney, and ABC Far North Queensland. I have used these forums to discuss my research and to comment on contemporary US politics.
Daniel T. Fleming 