Francesca Rochberg

Francesca Rochberg (; 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. 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. She taught at the University of California, Riverside.

Awards and Positions 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) 1993-94 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship 1982-1987 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship

Works

Before Nature: Cuneiform Knowledge and the History of Science. University of Chicago Press. 2016.

Novels