Rebecca Flemming

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Not to be confused with Rebecca Fleming.

Rebecca Flemming (born 27 May 1966) is a classical scholar. She holds the inaugural A. G. Leventis Chair of Ancient Greek Scientific and Technological Thought at the University of Exeter.

Biography

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Flemming was born on 27 May 1966.[1] She studied for her MA and PhD at University College London.[2] She obtained her PhD in 1997 with a doctoral thesis titled "Woman as an Object of Medical Knowledge in the Roman Empire, from Celsus to Galen".[3] From 1999 to 2006, she was a lecturer in ancient history at King's College London. From 2006 to 2022, she was a lecturer and then a senior lecturer in ancient history at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge.[2]

Flemming took up her position at Exeter University in 2022 when the chair was established with a £1.2m donation from the A. G. Leventis Foundation.[4][5] Since 2022, she has also served as the Director of the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health.[2]

Career and research

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Flemming specialises in medicine, reproduction, pandemics, and gender in classical antiquity.[2][4]

In 2021, Flemming contributed to an episode of In Our Time on the Justinianic Plague.[6]

Selected works

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  • Flemming, Rebecca (2000). Medicine and the Making of Roman Women: Gender, Nature, and Authority from Celsus to Galen. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199240029.
  • Hopwood, Nick; Flemming, Rebecca; Kassell, Lauren, eds. (2018). Reproduction: Antiquity to the Present Day. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107658370.
  • Flemming, Rebecca; Totelin, Laurence, eds. (2020). Medicine and Markets in the Graeco-Roman World and Beyond Essays on Ancient Medicine in Honour of Vivian Nutton. Classical Press of Wales. ISBN 9781910589786.

References

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  1. ^ "Flemming, Rebecca". Library of Congress. Retrieved 8 October 2025.
  2. ^ a b c d "Rebecca Flemming". University of Exeter. Retrieved 8 October 2025.
  3. ^ "Woman as an object of medical knowledge in the Roman Empire, from Celsus to Galen". ucl.primo.exlibrisgroup.com. Retrieved 2024-02-04.
  4. ^ a b "Details | Events | University of Exeter". www.exeter.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-02-04.
  5. ^ Merrington, Andrew (2023-05-23). "University hosts inaugural Alumni Lecture for the A. G. Leventis Chair in Ancient Scientific and Technological Thought". News. Retrieved 2024-02-04.
  6. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Plague of Justinian". BBC. Retrieved 2024-02-04.