Laurence Totelin

alt=Laurence Totelin, a white woman, wears a flowery dress and a black cardigan, as well as a necklace showing a molecule, and black glasses. she is lightly made up. Laurence Totelin (FRHistS) is a historian of Greek and Roman science, technology, and medicine. She is professor of ancient history at Cardiff University.

Education Totelin received her MPhil from the University of Cambridge in 2002. Her thesis was Recipes of mithridatium in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Towards an Anthropology of Antidotes. She was awarded her PhD from University College London in 2006. Her doctoral thesis was Hippocratic Recipes: Oral and Written Transmission of Pharmacological Knowledge in Fifth- and Fourth Century Greece.

Career and research Totelin specialises in pharmacology, botany and gynaecology in antiquity. She has written and edited books on ancient botany and ancient medicine. She has co-edited three Festschriften, for Elizabeth Craik, Vivian Nutton, and Liba Taub. As well as academic research, Totelin writes for public-facing audiences such as The Conversation, and writes a blog, Concocting History.

Totelin is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Fellow of the Linnean Society.