URAP

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...

Jimmy McGuire - Professor, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology

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

Amphibians are the world’s most imperiled vertebrate group. Confounding efforts to combat amphibian declines is that we have little knowledge concerning most of the species and much of it not easily accessible. Since 2000, we have been developing an informatics platform to create a web page for every species of...

Mairi McLaughlin - Professor, French

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

The aim of the project is to gather data on where translation is practiced and studied both on campus at Berkeley and in the wider Bay Area. The data gathered will be used to inform the design of the Berkeley Translation Initiative, the first formal center for the study of...

Michael Nylan - Professor, History

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

This project seeks to examine many aspects of ancient history from new perspectives, including the environmental and the emotional...

Todd Olson - Professor, Art History

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

The Spanish artist Jusepe Ribera interrogated the media of painting, drawing and etching in the vice-royalty of Naples. This publication project looks at the artist's In Ribera's work and its place in the Spanish Empire. His recourse to classical mythology as well as the depiction...

Todd Olson - Professor, Art History

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

Beato Antonio Baldinucci (Florence 1665 – Lazio 1717), son of the art historian to the Medici court, was a Jesuit missionary in Lazio, known for his penitential missions, involving carrying a cross, flagellation and bonfires of the vanities. During these internal missions, Baldinucci carried with him a copy of a painting...

Todd Olson - Professor, Art History

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

The French Huguenot ceramicist Bernard Palissy’s is famous for his casting of living specimens (amphibians and reptiles) for his plates. He was also a prolific writer, revealing his research in salt flats and his observation of fossils in the mountains. Palissy’s Discours admirable (1580) is a dialogue between Theory and...

Todd Olson - Professor, Art History

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

Simone Vouet was an emigré artist in Rome in the 1620s before he returned to France and became a major painter in Paris, most notably serving Anne d'Autriche, the mother of Louis III. This research project concerns the artist's production in Rome, most notably his execution...

Rahul Parson - Professor , South and Southeast Asian Studies

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

The initiation of a liberalized economy and rise of right-wing nationalist politics has increased the precarity of vulnerable communities, minorities, women, and those seen as outsiders or immigrants. This project uses historical, archival, ethnographic, and literary critical approaches to vernacular cultures in order to make visible the new political...

Laurie Pearce - Lecturer, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures

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

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Are you interested in ancient civilizations and modern technologies? Would you like to contribute to the preservation of knowledge and cultural heritage? Do you have or would you like to develop skills with databases and image preparation tools? Research apprentices associated with the URAP project Ancient Texts, Modern...

J. Theodore (Ted) Peña - Professor, Ancient Greek and Roman Studies

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

This project is concerned with the classification, quanitification, analysis and publication of the ca. 20 tons of ancient Roman pottery recovered in the Palatine East Excavations in downtown Rome. The material, which dates to the period ca. AD 50 – AD 450, comes from all over the Mediterranean world, and provides...

Christine Philliou - Professor, History

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

This is a collaborative research and Digital Humanities project I initiated in 2020 and our team includes scholars in Greece, Turkey, and several other countries. We are reading Ottoman Turkish and Greek sources about the population of Greek Orthodox in Istanbul and creating data sets, and then visualizations and interactive...

Richard Rhodes - Professor , Canadian Studies Program

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

This project aims to create teaching materials that can be used to increase knowledge of Canada among undergraduates and the general public. This will include creating short articles for public distribution about Canadian culture, history, and contemporary political issues. The student's work will ultimately build towards creating a proposal and...

Marjorie Shapiro - Professor, Physics

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

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the most powerful particle accelerator ever built and researchers use its data to study what the universe was like shortly after the big bang. Researchers at Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) play a key role in all aspects of the ATLAS...

Marjorie Shapiro - Professor, Physics

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

Important collections of historical sound recordings exist in archives, libraries, and museums worldwide. Many of these items are delicate and cannot be played by normal means. In this research project we are applying modern optical scanning methods - confocal microscopy and high resolution digital imaging - in order to obtain detailed maps...

Marjorie Shapiro - Professor, Physics

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

The aim of this project is to systematically recover and preserve a set of 2700 sound recordings, made in the early 20th Century, of Native American speakers across California. This project is a collaboration between Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and the UC Libraries, The Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, and...

Kim Shelton - Professor, Classics

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

The Nemea Center for Classical Archaeology is a research unit in the Department of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies for our excavation and research program at the Sanctuary of Zeus in Nemea, Greece. The Center archive houses a photographic and text archive that is in the process of being re...

Kim Shelton - Professor, Classics

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

MYCENAE, largest and wealthiest of the palatial citadels of the Late Bronze Age, has been under investigation for more almost 150 years. The site, Petsas House, is a large building complex in the largely unexplored main settlement area. The current project was initiated in 2000 and has uncovered at least...

Francesco Spagnolo - Curator, Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life

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

The Undergraduate Research Apprentice will conduct in-house and online research about the holdings of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life; assist with research on collection items, catalog and accession records; fact-check existing information in museum catalogs, books, and online resources; and proofread exhibition labels and web...

Francesco Spagnolo - Curator, Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life

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

Founded in 1962 by Seymour Fromer and Rebecca Kamchi Fromer, the Judah L. Magnes Museum established an important record as a Jewish collecting institution focusing on the broad spectrum of Jewish cultures, outside the normative Eurocentric view that dominated Jewish culture at the time. Through important “rescue missions” carried out...

Francesco Spagnolo - Curator, Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life

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

The Magnes collection includes approximately four thousand postcards dating from the last decades of the 19th century through the latter decades of the 20th century. Due to their compact size, ease of use, aesthetic immediacy, and ability to quickly connect individuals on a global scale, postcards have had a pivotal...

Francesco Spagnolo - Curator, Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life

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

Roman Vishniac (1897-1990) took some of the most culturally and scientifically important photographs of the 20th century. In 2018, The Magnes received the unprecedented gift of the Roman Vishniac archive, a collection comprising thousands of images ranging from street photography in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s to comprehensive documentation...

Nicole Starosielski - Professor, Film Studies

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

The project, called Sustainable Subsea Networks (https://sustainablesubseanetworks.com/), investigates the sustainability of subsea cables—the backbone of global digital networks that carry over 99% of transoceanic internet traffic (satellite is responsible for less than 1%). There are currently no industry-wide metrics for assessing the sustainability of the cable system...

Nicole Starosielski - Professor, Film Studies

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

The project, called Sustainable Subsea Networks, investigates the sustainability of subsea cables—the backbone of global digital networks that carry over 99% of transoceanic internet traffic (satellite is responsible for less than 1%). There are currently no industry-wide metrics for assessing the sustainability of the cable system. Our research...

Nicole Starosielski - Professor, Film Studies

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

The project, in development for Sustainable Subsea Networks, will create a 10-15 minute documentary film investigating the sustainability of subsea cables—the backbone of global digital networks that carry over 99% of transoceanic internet traffic (satellite is responsible for less than 1%).There are currently no industry-wide metrics for...

Nicole Starosielski - Professor, Film Studies

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

In response to the critical role of regenerative agriculture in combating climate change, we seek to conduct research that will facilitate the development of innovative tax incentive policies in California to catalyze widespread adoption of regenerative practices. Join a team that will investigate and explore new policies and campaign strategies...

Timothy Tangherlini - Professor, Scandinavian

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

The Icelandic Family Sagas are an intriguing window onto the social world of 10th and 11th century Iceland, seen through the authorial lens of late medieval writers. A striking characteristic of the sagas is the abundance of characters that interact in and across complex social networks as they first initiate...

Timothy Tangherlini - Professor, Scandinavian

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

The Berkeley folklore archive is one of the largest, student-created folklore archives in North America. Started in the 1960s, the archive houses over 500,000 records detailing the everyday life and informal culture of thousands of students and their communities. In 2020, the archive began digitizing these records. Along with...

Kimberly Vinall - Executive Director, Berkeley Language Center

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

The introduction of ChatGPT has impacted educational institutions and their policies, instructors and their teaching, and students and their study strategies in terms of its perceived advantages and disadvantages in the learning process. This project aims to specifically explore beliefs and attitudes towards ChatGPT in relationship to the learning of...

Sophie Volpp - Professor, Comparative Literature

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

I am engaged in two projects. One concerns attempts to preserve China's cultural heritage by saving rare books from capture by the Japanese army during the Sino-Japanese war. Since English-language sources are somewhat limited, reading knowledge of Chinese or Japanese is a big plus. The undergraduate students work...

Linda Waterfield - Head of Registration, Hearst Museum of Anthropology

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

The Hearst Museum of Anthropology, located in Anthropology & Art Practice Building, has educational offerings that combine the exciting work of Berkeley researchers with perspectives from community members, looking at how they relate to the cultures and objects represented in the collection. We encourage visitors to think deeply about questions...

Linda Waterfield - Head of Registration, Hearst Museum of Anthropology

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

The Development Department at the Hearst Museum focuses on projects that support the larger goals of the Museum: marketing, fundraising, communications, and project development. Students will be involved in researching museum membership strategies and designing digital and print marketing materials. Students will also be tasked with creating and evaluating engaging...

Linda Waterfield - Head of Registration, Hearst Museum of Anthropology

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

The Registration division oversees and manages collection object documentation. URAP students will assist in the transformation of once hidden collections to fully accessible collections through: · Processing New Collections Acquisitions · Research and Cataloging of Existing Collections · Archives Inventory and Needs Assessment: Library and Publications · Archives Inventory and Finding Aid Creation: Research...

Winnie Wong - Professor, Rhetoric

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

This is an ongoing historical research project on the visual culture produced by Chinese painters in Guangzhou, China, for European and American markets during the period of the Canton Trade (1700-1850). The project explores the intersection of art and science, art and plants, art and animals, and lesser known parts...

Winnie Wong - Professor, Rhetoric

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

A collaboration with the Asian Art Museum, this project researches the art and visual culture of Hong Kong, in its history and present...

Winnie Wong - Professor, Rhetoric

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

This project centers on the daily diary of a literatus in early modern Guangzhou, China. Through reading and translating the diary, we examine the everyday life of an urbane gentleman, his navigation of an early modern city and its social networks. We see the centrality of painting, poetry, music, and...

Winnie Wong - Professor, Rhetoric

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

Research on the modern and contemporary artists Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp, Banksy, Constantin Brancusi, Matthew Wong, Agnes Martin, and others...

Emily Zazulia - Professor, Music

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

This project aims to develop a new visualization tool for the study of Renaissance musical culture. Recognizing that central information about musicians and musical institutions is scattered across thousands of often hard-to-access documents and published volumes, and appreciating the potential for dynamic, easy-to-use digital visualization tools...