
Rebecca Flemming
Professor Rebecca Flemming is the A.G. Leventis Chair in Ancient Greek Scientific and Technological Thought at the University of Exeter. She earned her MA and PhD in the History Department of Kings College London. She researches pandemics and disease; gender, bodies, and sexuality; and reproduction and society in the classical world. She wrote Medicine and the Making of Roman Women, and co-edited two volumes: Reproduction: Antiquity to the Present Day (with Nick Hopwood and Lauren Kassell) and Medicine and Markets in the Graeco-Roman World and Beyond (with Laurence M. V. Totelin). She has also appeared in a BBC4 documentary on the Justinianic plague. Keep an eye out for her forthcoming monograph on medicine and empire in the Roman World!