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Made in Rome, Found in India: Mapping Ancient Trade Routes

Diliana Angelova - Professor, Art History

Status: Open     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...

 Arts & Humanities

Byzantine Secular Boxes -- A digital catalogue/website

Diliana Angelova - Professor, Art History

Status: Open     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 & Humanities

Research Assistant

Diliana Angelova - Professor, Art History

Status: Open     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...

 Arts & Humanities

PATH: The Project on Arms Trade History

Brian DeLay - Professor, History

Status: Open     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...

 Social Sciences   Arts & Humanities   Digital Humanities and Data Science

Armenian Studies at UC Berkeley and the Bay Area Armenian Community

Dzovinar Derderian - Professor, History

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

Armenian Studies at UC Berkeley and the Bay Area Community Armenian Studies on the UC Berkeley campus has informally existed since the 1980s and more formally since the 1990s. This project is aimed at conducting research (oral and textual) on the history of Armenian Studies at UC Berkeley and histories...

Istanpolis: Reconstructing Greek Communities in 19th-20th century Istanbul

Christine Philliou - Professor, History

Status: Open     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...

 Arts & Humanities   Digital Humanities and Data Science   Social Sciences

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