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Francesca Rochberg

Distinguished Professor of Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Research focuses:

- Assyriology, with a focus on Akkadian scholastic texts of the second and first millennia B.C.E.
- History of science, with a focus on Babylonian astronomy and astrology.
- Philology, cultural history, and the impact of the philosophy of science on the historiography of ancient science, with a focus on the reception of Babylonian astronomy and astrology into the wider field of history of science.

Experience

  • –present
    Distinguished Professor of Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley