URAP

Diliana Angelova - Professor, Art History

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

This project aims at creating several maps needed for a publication on the the trade and cultural connections between the Roman Mediterranean and Ancient India (1ct c. BCE to 6th c. CE...

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

This position entails tasks associated with researching in the humanities. It is well-suited for students who can work independently and are willing to dedicate at least of 3-5 hours of time in their week...

Folklore 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...

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 a frame, the poses they have with respect to each other, the boundaries between shots -- which opens the door...

David Bamman - Professor, Information, School of

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: Off Campus

This URAP offers two related strands of research in computational literary studies, and applicants should indicate in their application which strand they are most interested in. The first strand explores the techniques that fiction uses to evoke suspense in readers, and how these techniques represent anxiety in fictional characters, in...

David Bamman - Professor, Information, School of

Status: Check back for status     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: Current Term Now Closed     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

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...

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: Full- no new appr needed     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...

Marianne Constable - Professor, Rhetoric

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

Short book-length manuscript on rhetorical issues in dialogic philosophical texts from Plato to Heidegger (based on upper-division course I have taught several times...

Raul Coronado - Professor, Ethnic Studies

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     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? Intellectual historians tell us that how people have expressed their emotions changes over time. Some of my questions...

Raul Coronado - Professor, Ethnic Studies

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

Seeking a project manager who can supervise the transcription and proofreading of transcribed 19th century Latinx family papers. Most of these archival documents have been scanned into more than 10,000 PNG files and have been transcribed by Google Gemini. A group of apprentices will work in groups to continue to...

Brian DeLay - Professor, History

Status: Current Term Now Closed     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: Full- no new appr needed     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...

Brian DeLay - Professor, History

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: Off 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...

Charles B. Faulhaber - Professor, Spanish and Portuguese

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

Data cleanup of the PhiloBiblon netgraph database of ca. 220,000 records in 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 Iberian culture along...

Christina Fidler - Museum Archivist, Bancroft Library

Status: Check back for status     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

This project focuses on the post-digitization processing of two archival collections: the C. Hart Merriam papers and the A.L. Kroeber papers. These collections were previously digitized from microfilm reels, but currently exist as large files containing entire boxes of material. The goal of this project is to make these...

Mia 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...

Deniz Göktürk - Professor, German

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

The German department's open access electronic journal Transit is turning 20. A conference to celebrate this occasion is being planned for April 2026. The journal has been a pioneering platform for multimedia publishing, and we are continuously exploring new forms of presentation. The student will learn to think critically about...

Darcy Gimaldo Grigsby - Professor, Art History

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

HANDCOLOR 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. HANDCOLOR is now in preparation for publication in 2027 by the George Eastman Museum (Rochester...

Darcy Gimaldo Grigsby - Professor, Art History

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

In 2023 I curated Alexandre Dumas’s Afro: Blackness Caricatured, Erased, and Back Again, at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) April 12-July 30, 2023 with the assistance of my graduate advisee Vanessa Jackson. The exhibition featured my extensive collection of caricatures and cartes- de-visite of...

Timothy Hampton - Professor, Comparative Literature

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

Research the relationship between a certain number of modern poets who have been involved in the writing of songs, and their collaborators. What can we learn about how poetry has evolved in dialogue with song (and vice versa...

David Harris - Lecturer, Business, Haas School

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

REMOTE OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS to work with an arts, film, culture nonprofit organization - 9-11 hrs/wk (3 units), including mandatory online weekly meetings (day TBD). We are looking for students interested in gaining work experience across our two distinct workstreams: Web development and art preservation. You do not need to...

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, Ancient Greek and Roman Studies

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 2026/27. 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: 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...

Shreeharsh Kelkar - Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Field (ISF)

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

San Francisco today has a thriving economy of self-driving taxis. Waymo, of course, is the leader but there are also Zoox, Cruise, and Nuro. From starting in San Francisco, Waymo services now extend to the South Bay; select Waymo customers and taxis are also able to take the freeway...

Samiha Khalil - Professor, Rhetoric

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

This project will trace the development of "alienation" as a legal, philosophical, and religious concept. It will also draw a map of how the concept is taken up in twentieth-century Hegelian and Marxist traditions to indicate a deep sense of estrangement in the modern capitalist world. The project will...

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 2 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: to be negotiated     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 reflect upon their lives in the United States. This project includes retrieving, categorizing, and studying literary texts through resources such as the Hoji...

Andrew Leong - Professor , English

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     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

AI agents can help with running a project from organizing knowledge and tracking reports to giving feedback on drafts and identifying potential donors...

David Levine - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Check back for status     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, etc...

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. AI can help create localized code that slots into existing CHW software and provides clinicial decision support We have a prototype CHW Navigator system we...

David Levine - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

We’re evaluating a program distributing free Oral Rehydration Salts (ORS) to treat diarrhea as an add-on to distributing seasonal antimalarials in Chad. We’re looking for a highly organized undergraduate to assist with document and data tracking, data cleaning, and project documentation...

Juan Liu - Professor, Integrative Biology

Status: Full- no new appr needed     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

The water-land transition of tetrapods is one of the most pivotal events in evolutionary history. This project investigates how early tetrapods (specifically temnospondyls, also considered early amphibian relatives) adapted to the novel acoustic environment of land. By using fossils, we are examining the form-function relationship of the early...

Juan Liu - Professor, Integrative Biology

Status: Current Term Now Closed     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

During the Late Cretaceous period, the North American Rocky Mountain region was once part of a lost island continent called Laramidia. The eastern coastline of this landmass preserves a rich and understudied record of sharks, rays, and bony fish from the late Mesozoic and early Cenozoic Eras. The most diverse...

Xiaobo Lü - Professor, Political Science

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

How do political parties mobilize citizens when elections are not the primary means of allocating political power? This project addresses this question by examining CCP party building from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Focusing on subnational variation, the project seeks to uncover the mechanisms underlying the CCP’s uneven organizational development...

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

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

Ancient Egyptian coffins are covered with spells and images that work together as a kind of magical machine, designed to resurrect the deceased and guide them safely through the afterlife. Yet coffin texts are usually published as if they were independent texts, divorced from their physical position on the coffin...

Angela Marino - Professor, Latinx Research Center

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     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 small team to plan, record, edit, and publish research materials on social justice and participatory democracy in the American hemisphere...

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...

Donald J. Mastronarde - Professor, Classics

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

Gaspar Stiblinus, a scholar working in Switzerland, produced a massive edition of the surviving plays of Euripides in Basel in 1562. His work is of interest because he is the first modern scholar to provide summaries and analyses of the plays. His edition is very rare (although now images of...

Jimmy McGuire - Professor, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology

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

The island of Sulawesi in Indonesia is a hotspot of biodiversity and model system for studying the evolution of organisms. Our lab has conducted numerous expeditions to the island to document its biodiversity and collect samples for genetic analysis. Our lab uses molecular and morphological tools to reconstruct the evolutionary...