Project Search Options
Enter one or more search options below then click the Search button.
Click on a project's title to view more details.
Diliana Angelova - Professor, Art History
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project aims reconstructing no-longer extant or fragmentarily preserved Roman and Byzantine artworks...
Arts & HumanitiesDiliana Angelova - Professor, Art History
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project aims at creating a born-digital catalogue of Byzantine boxes made of ivory, bone, and wood. These objects, dated between the 10th and the 12th centuries, reveal an unusual side of Byzantium. They demonstrate that the Byzantines valued merrymaking, eroticism and the cultural heritage of Greece and Rome...
Arts & HumanitiesDiliana Angelova - Professor, Art History
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Tasks associated with researching in the humanities...
Arts & HumanitiesFolklore Archivist - Archivist, Folklore Program
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Folklore Archive is seeking a detail-oriented student to help digitize archival materials. This role provides a hands-on opportunity to engage with archival processes and contribute to the preservation and dissemination of rich cultural materials from the Berkeley Folklore Archive. No prior experience in archival work or digitization...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesDavid Bamman - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
LitBank an annotated dataset of fiction to support tasks in natural language processing and the computational humanities. While it currently exists for English, we'll be branching out to create similar resources for other languages as well (including Spanish, Japanese, German and other languages). The primary research will involve carrying out...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Arts & Humanities Digital Humanities and Data ScienceDavid Bamman - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
In machine learning, manual data annotation is often required for training or evaluation. While there are a number of annotation tools available, most are focused on specific tasks or annotation formats, and often do not work well with multiple modalities (e.g., text and video). In this project, you will contribute...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Arts & Humanities Digital Humanities and Data ScienceDavid Bamman - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Methods in computer vision have reached a level of maturity that we can now develop computational instruments to measure a wide range of phenomena in film -- which actors are present in frame, the poses they have with respect to each other, the boundaries between shots -- which opens the door to...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Arts & Humanities Digital Humanities and Data ScienceDavid Bamman - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
This URAP position is a placeholder for mentorship of a project of your design. If you are an advanced student in CS, data science, or another discipline with a strong computational background and have a topic of interest in the space of cultural analytics or computational social science, feel free...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Arts & Humanities Digital Humanities and Data SciencePatricia Baquedano-Lopez - Professor, Education
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Background: In 2016, voters in the state of California passed Assembly Bill (AB) 2016 which now requires an ethnic studies curriculum for grades 7-12. In a state where the Latinx student population is 3,284,788 or 56.1% of all students in the state, the new ethnic studies requirement invites a deeper...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Arts & HumanitiesPatricia Baquedano-Lopez - Professor, Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Background: Mam is one of the Mayan languages whose ancestral community spans southern Mexico and western Guatemala. According to the Censo Nacional de Poblacion y VII de Vivienda (2018), there are 842, 252 Mam speakers living in Guatemala, with the largest communities in Huehuetenango, San Marcos, and Quetzaltenango. This project...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Arts & HumanitiesPatricia Baquedano-Lopez - Professor, Education
Status: Check back for status Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project aims to understand the impact of current immigration policies on undocumented students' pursuit of higher education. Its goals are twofold: (1) to identify which immigration policies in the United States support higher education for undocumented students, and (2) to determine whether Higher Education Serving Institutions (HSIs) and Emerging...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Arts & HumanitiesAdam Benkato - Professor , Near Eastern Studies
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project consists of two parts: the 'Open Archive of Middle Persian Documents' and 'Chorasmian Online'. The goal is to make primary source material and lexicographical material available to researchers online. We will probably work on both projects in tandem or on alternating weeks, as the tasks and skills required...
Arts & HumanitiesStephen Best - Professor, Townsend Center
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Undergraduate Humanities Writer covers humanities-related events and programs at Berkeley's Townsend Center for the Humanities and across campus...
Arts & HumanitiesSharad Chari - Professor, Geography
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The idea of the Blue Economy has taken hold as a way of thinking about very different things, from deep sea mining to fishing and shipping, and to new ways of thinking about human interaction with the vast oceanic environment that is beyond our understanding. The idea of deepening extraction...
Arts & Humanities Social Sciences Environmental IssuesLawrence Cohen - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
From 2015-2021, I followed the unfolding of India's massive experiment in big-data governance, the national biometric ID known as Aadhaar, organizing the distribution of government and financial services via collecting the biometric scans (fingerprints and eyes) of persons in the world's most populous country. Alternatively praised as a vehicle...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesLawrence Cohen - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated
The core of this research involves translating from the Marathi language a series of essays by the Mumbai-based gay activist and journalist Ashok Row Kavi. These essays appeared in a prominent Marathi-language newspaper and have recently been published. I work with Mr. Row Kavi and have written about...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesMarianne Constable - Professor, Rhetoric
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Chicago Husband-Killing and the New Unwritten Law is a book-length manuscript concerned with a particular defense known as the new unwritten law, which supposedly exonerated women accused of killing their husbands in Chicago at the beginning of the twentieth century. The point of the book is to explore...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesRaul Coronado - Professor, Ethnic Studies
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This is an archival project on the history of the printing press and development of print culture in the Spanish-Mexican Southwest (California, New Mexico, and Texas). We will track down bibliographies of primary and secondary sources related to printed documents in the Southwest. We will then scan these sources...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesRaul Coronado - Professor, Ethnic Studies
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This is an archival project on the history of the circulation of books in the Spanish-Mexican Southwest (California, New Mexico, and Texas). We will track down bibliographies of primary and secondary sources related to printed documents and books that circulated in the Southwest. We will then scan these sources...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesRaul Coronado - Professor, Ethnic Studies
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
How can we write a history of Latine feelings? How can private writing give us access to how Mexicans in the Southwest thought about their feelings, their interiority, their sense of self? Knowing more about this can give us a better sense of two things: how have Latine communities expressed...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesRaul Coronado - Professor, Ethnic Studies
Status: Check back for status
...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesJohn Alba Cutler - Professor, English
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
During the early twentieth century, Spanish-language newspapers played a critical role in publishing literary works in Latinx communities all over the United States. Hundreds of these newspapers have been digitized, with literally thousands of poems, short stories, chronicles, and serialized novels in them. But students and scholars have only...
Arts & HumanitiesBrian DeLay - Professor, History
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Guns and power go together. Like today, most forms of inequality in the global 19th century depended on a weapons gap. The unequal distribution of firearms helped determine power relations both between countries and within countries. Where did all those guns come from? And why did some have so many...
Social Sciences Arts & Humanities Digital Humanities and Data ScienceBrian DeLay - Professor, History
Status: Check back for status Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Are you interested in history? Intrigued by the secrets locked away in old, handwritten letters? Do you want to help create new knowledge about the past through archival research? Or put technical skills to work understanding the past? If so, here’s your chance. Brian DeLay (Professor of History) and Julia...
Social Sciences Arts & Humanities Digital Humanities and Data ScienceBrian DeLay - Professor, History
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
None of the revolutionaries who transformed the Americas in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries could mass-produce their own guns and ammunition. They had to rely on the international arms trade. Aim at Empire is the first book to explore how access to weapons (or lack thereof) shaped...
Social Sciences Arts & Humanities Digital Humanities and Data ScienceCharles B. Faulhaber - Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Conversion of the PhiloBiblon relational database of ca. 420,000 records to the netgraph architecture of FactGrid: a database for historians. The software used is Wikibase, the same software used for Wikipedia. PhiloBiblon is a database of the Spanish, Portuguese, and Catalan primary sources (manuscripts and early printed books) of medieval...
Arts & Humanities Digital Humanities and Data SciencePaul Fine - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
High in the rainforest canopy, epiphytic plants face the challenge of obtaining the nutrients they need without having contact with the soil. This project investigates nutrient acquisition challenges and strategies between epiphytic plants found in two different forest types in the Peruvian Amazon: relatively nutrient-rich forests with a clay...
Biological & Health Sciences Arts & HumanitiesPaul Fine - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Near infrared spectroscopy (FT-NIR) is a fast, cost-effective technology that measures the irradiation of organic molecules inside of a leaf. The spectrometer makes chemical bonds vibrate and generate a wave response that corresponds to the leaf’s internal chemical composition (both qualitative and quantitative). These signals have been shown...
Biological & Health Sciences Arts & HumanitiesPaul Fine - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
There are many missing taxa in the molecular phylogeny of Burseraceae. Some of these missing taxa are endemic to extremely remote geographic locations and far away from their closest putative relatives. We will extract DNA from dried leaves, and get samples ready for genomic sequencing...
Biological & Health Sciences Arts & HumanitiesPaul Fine - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Check back for status
...
Biological & Health Sciences Arts & HumanitiesEmma Fraser - Professor, New Media, Center for
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
OSKI Tech is a program that introduces new technology to a range of students. It is designed to work as a portable technology instruction lab, with a focus on expanding participation in technology for students in media studies, new media, arts and social sciences. The core of OSKI Tech is...
Arts & Humanities Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesMia Fuller - Professor, Institute of European Studies
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This is the ideal URAP for students interested in a career in international diplomacy and/or foreign affairs. The Institute of European Studies seeks to enrich America's understanding of Europe -- its people, culture, languages, and politics -- through the generation and dissemination of distinguished scholarship. As the University's focal point for...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesDarcy Gimaldo Grigsby - Professor, Art History
Status: Check back for status Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
My new book is a meditation on the strange tenderness of handcolored photographs. Although I consider professional studio work, I focus on amateur practice of painting directly onto black and white photographs from the 1860s to 1950s. Research entails locating pertinent sources such as paint kits, how-to books and...
Arts & Humanities Social Sciences 150 Years of Women at BerkeleyDavid Harris - Lecturer, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
REMOTE OPPORTUNITIES FOR RESEARCH APPRENTICES - Please do not apply unless you can commit 9~12 hrs/wk (3 units) including mandatory online weekly meetings on Wednesday afternoons (exact time TBA). Want to gain work experience with Exhibit Development, Web Development, Data Science, Online Advertising, Art History, Media Archiving, Video Editing...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesDavid Harris - Lecturer, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Interested in researching the rise of AI and its impact on society and politics while shaping real-world policy...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesTodd Hickey - Professor, Classics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Center for the Tebtunis Papyri is seeking assistance with a cataloging project in 2024/25. This will mainly involve inventorying, measuring, describing, and foldering papyrus fragments from the collection. Updating the Center’s database of papyri will also be part of this project...
Arts & HumanitiesTodd Hickey - Professor, Classics
Status: Check back for status
...
Arts & HumanitiesShreeharsh Kelkar - Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Field (ISF)
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The term "AI" or "artificial intelligence" is now regularly splashed across news articles and op-eds; most people have some, if vague, idea of what AI means. But the term today does not mean what it used to mean: in the last two decades, the crop of technologies we now...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Arts & Humanities Social SciencesShreeharsh Kelkar - Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Field (ISF)
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
For many ordinary people, the term "Cambridge Analytica"--even if they are not sure exactly what the controversy is about--brings forth some association with the topics of election interference, psychological manipulation, illicit hacking, Russian disinformation, and Facebook. The truth is that it had very little to do with any...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Arts & Humanities Social SciencesShreeharsh Kelkar - Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Field (ISF)
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs
Political scientists have noticed a large contemporary trend in the US where high-income college-educated people tend to vote Democratic rather than Republican, a reversal of earlier patterns; they have labeled this as "education polarization". Education polarization is best illustrated through the case of Prop 22 in California. In...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Arts & Humanities Social SciencesShreeharsh Kelkar - Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Field (ISF)
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
In October 2012, the Harvard Business Review declared “data scientist” to be the “sexiest job of the 21st century.” Part of a "Spotlight package" on the power of "big data" and its potential to change organizations and management, the articles in the issue collectively argued that with the growth of...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Arts & Humanities Social SciencesMichelle Koo - Staff Curator, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The world's natural history museums are responsible for documenting over 1.8 billion species known as a result of 300 years of biological exploration of the planet. The information contained in museums include observational and specimen-based data, text, images, sound and video and form the foundation of what we know...
Biological & Health Sciences Arts & Humanities Digital Humanities and Data Science 150 Years of Women at BerkeleyMichelle Koo - Staff Curator, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ) is a vibrant research and informatics center for the campus and the natural history communities around the world. The world's natural history museums are responsible for documenting over 1.8 billion species known as a result of 300 years of biological exploration of the planet...
Biological & Health Sciences Arts & Humanities Digital Humanities and Data Science 150 Years of Women at BerkeleyAndrew Leong - Professor , English
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Japanese and English-language literary columns in Japanese American newspapers played crucial roles in pre-World War II immigrant society, offering opportunities for readers and contributors to think and feel more deeply and imaginatively about their lives in the United States. This project includes retrieving, categorizing, and studying literary texts...
Arts & HumanitiesAndrew Leong - Professor , English
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Tessaku_ Tessaku (鉄柵, or “Iron Fence”) is a Japanese-language literary journal that was published by incarcerees in the Tule Lake Segregation Center during World War II. It consists of nine issues, totaling 751 pages, running from March 1944 to July 1945, and includes poetry, fiction, and essays composed by...
Arts & HumanitiesDavid Levine - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Most poor women face challenges with menstrual hygiene. The results are staying home during one's period (limiting work and school), fear of leaks, infections, and high cost of single-use products. We are running two trials in Tamil Nadu and in Karnataka on distribution of menstrual cups. It would be...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesDavid Levine - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
We are developing a curriculum based on stories, games and engaging activities ) to teach about health in poor nations (wash hands with soap, cover your cough, etc.). If you are selected for this research project, you have the OPTION to join the Youth Equity Discovery Initiative (YEDI) program. YEDI is...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesDavid Levine - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Roughly 1.5 billion poor people receive healthcare from roughly 1.5 million community health workers (CHWs). CHWs are typically women with limited education and minimal training. ChatGPT, GPT4 and their peers should be able to provide high-quality support, especially if trained on the local clinical guidelines. If you are selected...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesDavid Levine - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
I am involved in a research project that is giving Android smart phones to nurses and midwives in clinics in rural Kenya. We need to program an app that helps them follow a checklist of procedures for a safe delivery. If successful, I hope this app will be adopted widely...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesJuan Liu - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Lateral line sensory system, or lateral line organ, or simply the lateral line, is a system of sensory organs found in fish and some tetrapods (four-legged vertebrates). The lateral line enables those vertebrates to detect and perceive the hydrodynamic and physical environment they inhabit including movement, vibration, and pressure...
Arts & Humanities Biological & Health Sciences