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Sabrina Agarwal - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The deaths of Undocumented Border Crossers (UBC’s) continue to remain an area of engagement and research among bioanthropologists within the United States, specifically in the border states of Arizona, Texas, and California. Ongoing research within the Skeletal Biology lab seeks to analyze skeletal samples from the Pima County Office of...
Social SciencesSabrina Agarwal - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Working with human skeletal remains from archaeological sites, bioarchaeologists can help to reconstruct health profiles of past peoples. While there is good deal of historical and archaeological research on the later Middle Ages in Europe and more specifically in Italy, bioarchaeological studies of from Medieval Italy have focused primarily on...
Social SciencesSabrina Agarwal - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
An ongoing research of PI Agarwal's research and writing delves into the bioethics of bioarchaeological practice, scientific racism, and osteological conservation and collection. This project is focused on the history and ethical responsibility of scientists working with skeletal anatomical legacy collections particularly from India. India was the primary global red...
Social SciencesMeg Conkey - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
In preparation for the submission of documents related to the 40 year history of how the study of gender and a feminist perspective developed in archaeology, this project will involve sorting and categorizing (and reading in order to do so!) all sorts of documents from conferences, correspondence, audio tapes, drafts...
Social Sciences 150 Years of Women at BerkeleyJunko Habu - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
At our East Asian Archaeology Laboratory, we are analyzing artifacts and faunal/floral remains excavated from Jomon period sites in Japan. Jomon is the name of a prehistoric hunter-gatherer culture in Japan, which lasted from approximately 13000 to 2300 years ago. Unlike many other hunter-gatherer cultures, the Jomon...
Social SciencesJunko Habu - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
In this project, you will have an opportunity to work on some of the food related issues faced by the contemporary society, with a focus on examples from Japan. As part of the umbrella project that examines the advantages of small scale food production and distribution mechanisms in terms of...
Social SciencesChristine Hastorf - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This URAP fall term project be library based, reading through the literature on archaeobotanical organic remains from both the Amazon and Andean regions of South America to get the current assessment of where plants were domesticated and how they moved throughout the continent. The student will bring together a range...
Social Sciences Mathematical and Physical SciencesChristine Hastorf - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
UC Berkeley's McCown archaeobotany laboratory completes a range of archaeological analyses and research. This project will focus on visualizing the archaeological plant and animal remains that have been excavated across an early residential settlement using ARCGIS to create three dimensional distribution maps of the ecofacts to study past foodways and...
Social Sciences Mathematical and Physical SciencesChristine Hastorf - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This URAP project involves first-hand research experience with archaeological plant remains in the McCown Archaeobotany Laboratory with Dr. Christine Hastorf and PhD student Elizabeth Dresser-Kluchman. The student will assist with the analysis of carbonized plant remains from the Gallina area in Northern New Mexico. This area was occupied...
Social Sciences Mathematical and Physical SciencesCori Hayden - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Current Term Now Closed 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: Full- no new appr needed 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: Current Term Now Closed 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 SciencesKent Lightfoot - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project is an opportunity for URAP students to participate in the lab-based analysis of soils excavated from the Estate Little Princess, a sugar plantation that was active on St. Croix (US Virgin Islands) from 1749 through the 1940s. Over the course of the semester students will be trained...
Social SciencesKent Lightfoot - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Researchers in the California Archaeology Laboratory are continuing a long-term study investigating land stewardship practices of Native Californian peoples. The study involves collecting samples of archaeological biological materials (shell, animal, and plant remains) from a number of sites up to 6000 years old on the Central California Coast and...
Social SciencesLisa Maher - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Current Term Now Closed 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 SciencesLisa Maher - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This Spring, work with state-of-the-art lab equipment and learn how to examine soils to find signs of past human environmental impacts. Over the course of the semester, students will be trained in the basic tenants of archaeology, geology, and geoarchaeology through the lab-based analyses of soils...
Social SciencesKaren Nakamura - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Current Term Now Closed 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: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This position involves coordinating and helping with the curation of comparative (non-human) skeletal specimens held in the Bear Bones Zooarchaeology lab. Specifically, this will involve supervised care, organization and accounting of mammals, fish, and bird skeletons. If desired, apprentices will also have the opportunity to assist with specimen prep...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesJun Sunseri - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed 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: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Bear Bones Lab Group is partnered in several community-based, collaborative relationships involving Berkeley archaeologists, Native communities in California such as the United Auburn Indian Community, the North Fork Mono, Mono Lake Kutzadika’a, and the Merced del Pueblo de Abiquiú and its Library and Cultural Center in northern New...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social Sciences