Rebecca Flemming

Rebecca Flemming is a Classicist. She holds the inaugural A.G. Leventis Chair as Professor of Ancient Greek Scientific and Technological Thought at the University of Exeter.

Education
Flemming completed her PhD at University College London in 1997. Her doctoral thesis was Woman as an Object of Medical Knowledge in the Roman Empire, from Celsus to Galen.

Career and research
Flemming specialises in medicine, reproduction, pandemics, and gender in classical antiquity. 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. In 2021, Flemming contributed to an episode of In Our Time on the Justinianic Plague.