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Name
  
Francesca Rochberg

Role
  
Assyriologist

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Education
  
University of Chicago (1980), University of Pennsylvania

Awards
  
MacArthur Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada

Books
  
The Heavenly Writing: D, In the Path of the Moon: Ba, Gone Crazy Out There, Myths and Legends of Incas, In the Path of the Moon

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.

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She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Chicago with a Ph.D. She taught at the University of California, Riverside.

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
  • 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. 

    • References

    Francesca Rochberg Wikipedia
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