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Dr Rebecca Flemming
Fellow, Tutorial Advisor, Director of Studies in Natural Sciences (History and Philosophy of Science Parts IB, II and III - Michaelmas Term 2018 and Easter Term 2019)
University Senior Lecturer in Classics (Ancient History)
Ancient history
history and philosophy of science
Rebecca Flemming is a University Senior Lecturer in Classics (Ancient History). She has been a fellow of Jesus College since 2006.
Academic interests
Rebecca Flemming's academic interests include:
- Social and cultural history of the Roman Empire
- Ancient medicine
- Women and gender: ancient and modern
- Roman religion
- Historiography, comparative history, and historical theory.
Degrees obtained
- BA, University of Cambridge.
- MA and PhD, London.
Awards and prizes
- Philip Leverhulme Prize for outstanding research, 2004.
Other interests
The natural world, beer, books, and some sport.
Department link
http://www.classics.cam.ac.ukPublications, links and resources
See details of the Wellcome Strategic Award, Generation to Reproduction.
Recent publications
- Flemming, R. (2013) The invention of infertility in the classical Greek world: medicine, divinity, and gender. Bulletin for the History of Medicine 87, pp 565-590.
- Flemming, R. (2013) Baths and bathing in Greek medicine. In: S. Lucore and M. Trümper, eds, Greek Baths and Bathing Culture: New Discoveries and Approaches, Leuven: BABESCH Supplement 23, pp 23-32.
- Flemming, R. (2013) Gendering medical provision in the cities of the Roman West. In: E. Hemelrijk and G. Woolf, eds, Women and the Roman City in the Latin West, Leiden: Mnemosyne Supplement, pp 271-93.
- Flemming, R. (2012) Identity Registration in the Classical Mediterranean World. In: K. Breckenridge and S. Szreter, eds, Registration and Recognition: Documenting the Person in World History. Oxford: British Academy Proceedings 182, pp 169-190.
- Flemming, R. (2012) Antiochus and Asclepiades: medical and philosophical sectarianism at the end of the Hellenistic era. In: D. Sedley ed, The Philosophy of Antiochus, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp 55-79.
- Flemming, R. (2010) Pliny and the pathologies of empire, Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar 14, 1-24.
- Flemming, R. (2010) Roman Sexuality.In: A. Barchiesi and W. Scheidel, eds, The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp 796-813.
