URAP

Diliana Angelova - Professor, Art History

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

This project aims reconstructing no-longer extant or fragmentarily preserved Roman and Byzantine artworks...

Diliana 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...

Diliana Angelova - Professor, Art History

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

Tasks associated with researching in the humanities...

Folklore Archivist - Archivist, Folklore Program

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

Students applying would ideally already be familiar with folklore genres (e.g. by having taken Anthropology 160, The Forms of Folklore, or an equivalent course) but we are also excited to welcome new students who are interested in learning more about the field. The basic work will entail filing, cataloging and...

Milton Azevedo - Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

The project is intended to originate an essay-length study of the situation of the Spanish language in this country, including but not limited to its use in Hispanic/Latino communities, the press, radio, and television, education, government, and other areas, as well as the influence of English on Spanish...

David 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...

David Bamman - Professor, Information, School of

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: Off Campus

Variationist sociolinguistics studies style, and the social meaning that is embedded in it. Though within sociolinguistics this most often takes the form of linguistic variables, style manifests in other aspects of our cultural lives. Here, we study another setting in which style manifests: the design of websites. This project seeks...

David 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...

David 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...

Patricia 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...

Patricia Baquedano-Lopez - Professor, Education

Status: Full- no new appr needed     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...

Patricia Baquedano-Lopez - Professor, Education

Status: Current Term Now Closed     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...

Adam 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...

Stephen 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...

Marianne 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...

Raul 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...

Raul 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...

Raul 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...

Brian 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...

Brian DeLay - Professor, History

Status: Current Term Now Closed     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...

Jeroen Dewulf - Professor, German

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...

Charles 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...

Emma Fraser - Professor, New Media, Center for

Status: Current Term Now Closed     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...

Aglaya Glebova - Professor, Art History

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

This book project examines photographs and photographic albums of the gulags, or Soviet forced labor camps, from the 1930s onwards, in particular the little-known visual legacy of the gulag system in Kazakhstan, and its relationship to forced sedentarization. These state-produced images entirely elide the violence of the forced...

Aglaya Glebova - Professor, Art History

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

This book project examines the idea of the exhausted body and the need for its revitalization in Soviet art and thinking of the 1920s and 1930s. How was the body damaged by war, overwork, trauma, and material scarcity to be revitalized? How was it to be represented? Could art help...

Aglaya Glebova - Professor, Art History

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

This research project centers on locating little-known primary sources on art in Soviet-art Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan in the 1920s and 1930s and 1950s and 1960s...

Aglaya Glebova - Professor, Art History

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

The Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies serves as the focal point at the University of California at Berkeley for students and faculty who conduct research and teaching on the geographic region of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. ISEEES is working to organize and digitize its...

Darcy Gimaldo Grigsby - Professor, Art History

Status: Current Term Now Closed     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...

David 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...

David 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...

Todd 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...

Shreeharsh 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...

Shreeharsh Kelkar - Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Field (ISF)

Status: Full- no new appr needed     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, even though it has very little do with any of these except...

Shreeharsh 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...

Shreeharsh Kelkar - Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Field (ISF)

Status: Current Term Now Closed     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...

Michelle 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...

Michelle Koo - Staff Curator, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology

Status: Current Term Now Closed     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...

Andrew Leong - Professor , English

Status: Current Term Now Closed     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...

Andrew Leong - Professor , English

Status: Current Term Now Closed     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...

David 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...

David 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...

David 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...

David 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...

Juan 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...

Juan Liu - Professor, Integrative Biology

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Scientific illustration is art in the service of science by drawing, painting, or rendering images of scientific subjects to accurately inform and communicate sciences. Research in fossil fishes (paleoichthyology) is at the junction of paleontology and ichthyology, and therefore, possesses characteristics of both —-- the incomplete nature of fossil preservations and...

Juan Liu - Professor, Integrative Biology

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Our study aims to explore the intricate details of mammalian hearing, with a specific emphasis on the function and evolution of the middle ear, with comparative anatomy with fish hearing apparatus. This critical aspect of auditory anatomy plays a pivotal role in the way mammals perceive and interpret sound. By...

Juan Liu - Professor, Integrative Biology

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Catfishes (Siluriformes) are remarkable among hearing specialist fishes in their possession of the Weberian apparatus, a conductive multi-ossicle chain linking the inner ear and swim bladder that is analogous to the middle ear ossicles of the mammalian tetrapods. Work with laboratory animals has produced considerable insight into the role...

Rita Lucarelli - Professor, MELC (Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures)

Status: Check back for status     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Ancient Egyptian coffins are inscribed with spells and images which stand in for spells. All function together as a machine to resurrect the deceased and to guide them safely through the next world. Given this function, it is perhaps surprising that the texts from coffins are usually published completely divorced...

Angela Marino - Professor, Latinx Research Center

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

The Democracy + Media Lab seeks students with strong writing and/or digital media skills to assist in developing articles, visual media, documentary production, and podcasts. Successful candidates will join a team of other students to plan, record, edit, and publish research materials on social justice and democracy in the American...

Donald J. Mastronarde - Professor, Classics

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: Off Campus

This project involves research for a new and more complete edition of the scholia to Euripides. Scholia are annotations written in the margins and between the lines of medieval manuscripts of classical authors. In the scholia we find filtered through many generations of reuse parts of ancient scholarly discussions of...