Francesca Rochberg
Francesca Rochberg (Halton) (born May 8, 1952 in Philadelphia) 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 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]
Awards
- 2010 Research Professorship Ludwig Maximilian University of 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)
- 1993-94 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship[4]
- 1982-1987 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship
Works
- Babylonian Horoscopes. DIANE Publishing. 1998. ISBN 978-0-87169-881-0.
- The Heavenly Writing: Divination, Horoscopy, and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture. Cambridge University Press. 2004. ISBN 978-0-521-83010-2.
- In the Path of the Moon: Babylonian Celestial Divination and Its Legacy. Brill. 2010. ISBN 978-90-04-18389-6.
Novels
- Gone Crazy Out There. Kennedy & Boyd. 2008. ISBN 978-1-904999-81-2.
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