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Diliana Angelova - Professor, Art History
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Conjure in your mind's eye any famous statue from Greco-Roman antiquity. Venus de Milo, the Doryphorus, the Nike of Samothrace are all now ghostly white. Not so in antiquity. Originally, all of them were covered with pigments. Reddish-rose pigments for the lips and cheeks, fleshly colors for the...
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: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Tasks associated with researching in the humanities...
Arts & HumanitiesChristopher Ansell - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Advanced German, Polish, or Hungarian language skills are needed to participate in this project.** The European continent has undergone major shifts since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Eleven countries have emerged from a totalitarian Communist system, embracing capitalism and democracy and joining the European Union. These transitions had major...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesChristopher Ansell - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The European Union is a complex international organization that influences all aspects of contemporary European politics and society. While scholars have studied how the European Union interacts with nations a great deal, it is often portrayed as having a limited capacity to enforce its rules and norms at the national...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesChristopher Ansell - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Parliamentary questions are one of the key means of oversight in the European Union. This project aims to analyze the ways that this oversight process is used at the European level through large scale, quantitative text analysis, machine learning, and statistical methods as well as finalize the data structure for...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesFolklore 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...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesMilton 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...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesDavid Bamman - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Full- no new appr needed 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 language as well. The primary research will involve carrying out linguistic annotations (e.g., reading novels and marking...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Arts & Humanities Digital Humanities and Data ScienceDavid Bamman - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Many computational studies on people in text focus on gender. We are interested in broadening the dimensions of identity labels analyzed in natural language processing and cultural analytics. In particular, we hope to carefully curate resources and datasets for investigating the representation of race in fiction, especially in literature used...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Arts & Humanities Digital Humanities and Data ScienceDavid Bamman - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
There are several research opportunities available for undergraduates for expanding BookNLP (https://github.com/booknlp/booknlp), a natural language processing pipeline for books and other long documents. We'll be focusing on developing BookNLP for Python, and expanding its capacity to the languages of Spanish, Russian, Japanese, and German. This work will...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Arts & Humanities Digital Humanities and Data SciencePatricia 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...
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 & 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 & HumanitiesLisa Bloom - Scholar-in-Residence, Gender and Women's Studies
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Building upon the ideas presented in my recent book, Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics: Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic, published by Duke University Press (2022), we will delve into new avenues of research and writing. This fall, we aim to explore the vital role of artist-activists...
Social Sciences Environmental Issues Arts & HumanitiesRobin Clark - Visiting Scholar, Beatrice Bain Research Group
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Larry Bell is an American artist who has explored perceptions of space and light through the medium of glass for over sixty years. Always prolific, he has never been more active or experimental than he is today at the age of 82. Based both in Venice, California and Taos, New...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesRobin Clark - Visiting Scholar, Beatrice Bain Research Group
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The long artistic career of Josef Albers (born Bottrop, Germany 1888 and died New Haven, Connecticut 1976) developed in tandem with his path-breaking work as an art educator. His focus on tactile experimentation and visual perception profoundly influenced his students first at the at the Bauhaus in Germany and...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesMarianne 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...
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 Latinx feelings? How can private writing give us access to how Mexicans in the Southwest (California, New Mexico, and Texas) thought about their feelings, their interiority, their sense of self? This project will turn to nineteenth-century Spanish-Mexican private writing--letters, notebooks...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesJeroen 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...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesCharles 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 ScienceEmma Fraser - Professor, New Media, Center for
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated 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 & TechnologiesAglaya 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...
Arts & HumanitiesAglaya 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...
Arts & HumanitiesAglaya 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...
Arts & HumanitiesEmily Gottreich - Professor, Global Studies
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This research project identifies and analyzes a growing trend across the Islamic world, whereby unprecedented levels of attention and resources are currently being devoted to the preservation, renovation, and in some cases creation of Jewish heritage sites. It surveys projects like the refurbishing of synagogues and cemeteries as well as...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesDarcy 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...
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
Students will conduct research to support development of new writing projects and possible new course offerings on the topics of AI Ethics and Social Media...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesDavid Harris - Lecturer, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
I am conducting research on the ways in which ecosystems of philanthropic funding affect the possibilities of innovation in the nonprofit sector. I am particularly focused on comparing the ways in which nonprofit and venture capital fundraising differ, and how philanthropic funders may be able to borrow techniques from venture...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesTodd Hickey - Professor, Classics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Center for the Tebtunis Papyri is seeking assistance with two digital humanities projects in 2023/24. One involves the upkeep of an online catalogue of papyri (images and metadata); the other, the creation of a digital edition of English-language archival materials (from ca. 1900) concerning the history of Berkeley...
Arts & HumanitiesDonna Jones - Professor, English
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
I am conducting research on the mid-century African American Author Richard Wright and his years in Paris, along with his intellectual exchange with his fellow African American expatriates during the 1950s and early 1960s. My focus examines the political tensions of the Cold War...
Arts & HumanitiesMichelle Koo - Staff Curator, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
Status: Full- no new appr needed 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: 6-8 hrs 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. If you enjoy sharing natural history news and research as well as connecting people in our community and the public, this is the apprenticeship for you...
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: 6-8 hrs 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: 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...
Arts & HumanitiesAndrew 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...
Arts & HumanitiesDavid Levine - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Almost half the world cooks on inefficient wood and charcoal cookstoves. These stoves kill over a million people a year from indoor air pollution, contribute to deforestation, and release billions of tonnes of CO2. Improved cookstoves can dramatically reduce these problems and also save poor households substantial amounts of time...
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...
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...
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 SciencesJuan Liu - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed 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...
Arts & Humanities Biological & Health SciencesJuan 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...
Arts & Humanities Biological & Health SciencesJuan Liu - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed 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...
Arts & Humanities Biological & Health SciencesRita Lucarelli - Professor, MELC (Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures)
Status: Current Term Now Closed 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...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Arts & HumanitiesAngela Marino - Professor, Latinx Research Center
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
A special funded initiative of the Latinx Research Center, the Democracy and Media project seeks students with strong writing and/or digital media skills to assist in developing articles, visual media, and/or podcasts. Successful candidates will join a team of other students to plan, record, edit, and publish research...
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