Francesca Rochberg (Halton) (born May 8, 1952 in
Philadelphia
Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Sinc ...
) is an American
Assyriologist
Assyriology (from Greek , ''Assyriā''; and , '' -logia'') is the archaeological, anthropological, and linguistic study of Assyria and the rest of ancient Mesopotamia (a region that encompassed what is now modern Iraq, northeastern Syria, southea ...
, historian of science, and Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Near Eastern Studies at
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...
. She is best known for her work on the history of
Babylonian astronomy
Babylonian astronomy was the study or recording of celestial objects during the early history of Mesopotamia.
Babylonian astronomy seemed to have focused on a select group of stars and constellations known as Ziqpu stars. These constellations m ...
.
She graduated from the
University of Pennsylvania
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, and the
University of Chicago
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with a Ph.D. She taught at the
University of California, Riverside
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.
Awards
*2010 Research Professorship
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
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*2008 Member,
American Philosophical Society
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*2007 Member, Princeton,
Institute for Advanced Study
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, School of Historical Studies
*2006 Fellow, Magdalen College, Oxford
*2004 Fellow, Center for Ideas and Society, University of California, Riverside
*1999 John Frederick Lewis Award for Babylonian Horoscopes (American Philosophical Society, 1998)
*1993-94
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are Grant (money), grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative abi ...
*1982-1987
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship
Works
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Before Nature: Cuneiform Knowledge and the History of Science'' University of Chicago Press. 2016.
Novels
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References
External links
"Francesca Rochberg", ''Google Scholar''
1952 births
Living people
Educators from Philadelphia
American women educators
American Assyriologists
University of Pennsylvania alumni
University of California, Berkeley faculty
MacArthur Fellows
University of Chicago alumni
Members of the American Philosophical Society
Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford
21st-century American women
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