Department of Near Eastern Studies 250 Barrows Hall University of California Berkeley, California 94720-1940 Phone: 510-642-3757 Fax: 510-643-8430 Email: nes@berkeley.edu Chair: Professor Carol Redmount (web) Graduate Advisers, Near Eastern Studies: Ancient Studies Islamic/Arabic/Persian Studies Hebrew/Jewish Studies Professor Niek Veldhuis (Head Graduate Adviser) (web) Professor Hamid Algar Professor Robert Alter   Graduate Adviser, Joint Degree Program in Near Eastern Religions:   Professor Niek Velduis* Undergraduate Advisers, Near Eastern Studies: Islamic/Arabic/Persian Studies Ancient Studies Professor Wali Ahmadi Professor Francesca Rochberg   *will serve as chair graduate adviser for this program   Department Staff Financial Manager Betsy Stern betsy_s@berkeley.edu 642-4915 Financial Assistant Sharlene Mulder sharlene@uclink.berkeley.edu 642-3757 Graduate Assistant Shorena Kurtsikidze shorena@berkeley.edu 642-6162 Undergraduate Assistant Midge Fox foxmidge@berkeley.edu 642-3758 Accounting Assistant Rachel Marks rmarks@berkeley.edu Travel/Entertainment, Purchasing, Reimbursements   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ EVENTS IN NEAR EASTERN STUDIES NES GRADUATION 2008 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NESSA, the Near Eastern Studies Student Association, meets regularly throughout the semester. For more information about their activities, please go to their website, www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~nessa/. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   Professor Francesca Rochberg   Francesca Rochberg received her B.A. in Oriental Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and her Ph.D. from the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago. She has been a fellow at the Altorientalisches Seminar, Universität Tübingen,Yale University, Magdalen College, Oxford University, and a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University. She was named Michael Polanyi Visiting Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Natural Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill for 1996. She is a recipient of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship (1982-87) and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (1993-94). She is coeditor with Alan C. Bowen of Interpretatio: Sources and Studies in the History and Philosophy of Classical Science and Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science.Rochberg's publications include editions of cuneiform texts in her books Aspects of Babylonian Celestial Divination: The Lunar Eclipse Tablets of Enuma Anu Enlil, and Babylonian Horoscopes, as well as historical and philological studies of Babylonian astrology, astronomy, cosmology, and religion in Assyriological as well as history of science journals. Her book Babylonian Horoscopes won the John Frederick Lewis Award from the American Philosophical Society in 1999. Her most recent book is The Heavenly Writing: Divination, Horoscopy and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2004, paperback edition 2007).     General Info. || Faculty || Programs || Courses University of California, Berkeley || Letters & Science URL: http://neareastern.berkeley.edu /index.html Last modified March 20, 2007 All content copyright UC Berkeley, 2001