Rebecca Flemming

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 Flemming was born on 27 May 1966. She studied for her MA and PhD at University College London. 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". 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. Since 2022, she has also served as the Director of the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health.

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