Francesca Rochberg
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BornMay 8, 1952
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
DisciplineAssyriology
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Francesca Rochberg | |
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| Born | May 8, 1952 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago University of Pennsylvania |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Assyriology |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
Francesca Rochberg (née Halton; born May 8, 1952) is an American Assyriologist, historian of science, and Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Near Eastern Studies at University of California, Berkeley.[1] She is best known for her work on the history of Babylonian astronomy.
Born in Philadelphia, She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Chicago with a Ph.D.[2] She taught at the University of California, Riverside.[3]
- 2010 Research Professorship LMU Munich
- 2008 Member, American Philosophical Society
- 2007 Member, Princeton, Institute for Advanced Study, 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)[4]
- 1993-94 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship[5]
- 1982-1987 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship
