Francesca Rochberg Explained

Francesca Rochberg
Birth Date:	8 May 1952
Birth Place:	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Alma Mater:	University of Chicago University of Pennsylvania
Discipline:	Assyriology
Workplaces:	University of California, Berkeley

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 is best known for her work on the history of Babylonian astronomy.

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

• Book: Babylonian Horoscopes. DIANE Publishing. 1998. 978-0-87169-881-0 .
• Book: The Heavenly Writing: Divination, Horoscopy, and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture. Cambridge University Press. 2004. 978-0-521-83010-2 .
• Book: In the Path of the Moon: Babylonian Celestial Divination and Its Legacy. Brill. 2010. 978-90-04-18389-6 .
• Before Nature: Cuneiform Knowledge and the History of Science. University of Chicago Press. 2016.

Novels

• Book: Gone Crazy Out There. Kennedy & Boyd. 2008. 978-1-904999-81-2 .

External links

• "Francesca Rochberg", Google Scholar

Notes and References

1. Web site: Professor Francesca Rochberg . 2010-02-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100609202648/http://neareastern.berkeley.edu/Web_Rochberg/Francesca_Rochberg.html . 2010-06-09 . dead .
2. Web site: UC Berkeley > AHMA > Faculty Bio . 2010-02-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100618124406/http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/ahma/faculty_rochberg.html . 2010-06-18 . dead .
3. http://newsroom.ucr.edu/news_item.html?action=page&id=804 UC Riverside Professor Named Guggenheim Fellow
4. Web site: Francesca Rochberg - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . 2010-02-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110622012048/http://www.gf.org/fellows/12368-francesca-rochberg . 2011-06-22 . dead .