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Lawrence Cohen - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Open 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: Open 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 & HumanitiesChristine Hastorf - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project will involve laboratory analysis of preserved plant remains collected from household contexts at a Maya archaeological site called Altar de Sacrificios, which is located on the border of Guatemala and Mexico. The samples were collected from a range of time periods, ranging from the Preclassic to the Postclassic...
Social Sciences Mathematical and Physical SciencesChristine Hastorf - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Plotting archaeological plant and animal food data in 3D from a prehistoric archaeological project located in the Altiplano of Bolivia. The goal is to have a working GIS data base of excavated material so that the distribution and location of artifacts and ecofacts can be visualized. This project is part...
Social Sciences Mathematical and Physical SciencesCori Hayden - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project is a study of emergent and contested paradigms for understanding post-viral chronic illness. It has a historical dimension, a social theory dimension, and an anthro/science studies component. It focuses on how the proponents of competing paradigms are participating in a complicated public performance of power, legitimacy...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesRosemary Joyce - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Archaeology of Honduras This project will contribute to completion of reports on archaeological field projects conducted in Honduras between 1980 and 2009...
Social SciencesAndrew Kim - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This project examines the neuroendocrine, immunological, and psychiatric pathways underlying the consequences of trauma exposure in adults living in South Africa. Data come from two separate studies: the first on intergenerational trauma from apartheid in a longitudinal birth cohort study in Soweto, South Africa and the second on long COVID...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesLisa Maher - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
About 10,000 years ago in Southwest Asia farming communities began to settle in large villages and produce their own food; forever changing the social and physical landscape of this region. However, the emergence of social complexity and the dramatic social and economic changes that led to the origins of agriculture...
Social SciencesKaren Nakamura - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The Berkeley Disability Lab (https://disabilitylab.berkeley.edu/) has been working on several projects involving disability, technology, art, activism, and access in the Bay Area. We welcome students from all fields of the university (arts, engineering, social sciences, communications, CS, design, music, architecture, etc.), and people with personal experience of disability or...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesJun Sunseri - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Picuris Pueblo Collaborative Field Program is a community-based archaeological and anthropological project between the University of Arizona, Columbia University, Southern Methodist University, and Picuris Pueblo in New Mexico near Taos. The project is seeking to map and record the outlying field structures surrounding the present-day Pueblo. Melanie...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesJun Sunseri - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Our partnered project is a community-based, collaborative partnership involving Berkeley archaeologists and the Colfax-Todds Valley and Shingle Springs InterTribal Ecological Restoration (INTER) Crew. Tribal Leaders from Colfax-Todds Valley Considated Tribes and Shingle Springs Band of Miwok mentor our research at their Ancestral Places in the foothills of...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesJun Sunseri - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Archaeological Research Facility is teaming with us to develop detailed photorealistic 3D models of WW2 aircraft that went down in remote areas. The project team has begun detailed photo documentation of vintage aircraft in museums and private collections to understand what airframe components (hard points and high-density parts...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesJun Sunseri - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Open Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Ghost Ranch rockshelter archaeology project is a community-based archaeological and anthropological project between the University of California and Ghost Ranch Museums in New Mexico near Abiquiu. The project is seeking to map and record the features in a 3000 year old rockshelter site for which out team is...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social Sciences