Francesca Rochberg (née Halton; born May 8, 1952) is an American Assyriologist, historian of science, and Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Near Eastern Studies at University of California, Berkeley.^[1] She is best known for her work on the history of Babylonian astronomy.

Born in Philadelphia, She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Chicago with a Ph.D.^[2] She taught at the University of California, Riverside.^[3]

• 2010 Research Professorship Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
• 2008 Member, American Philosophical Society
• 2007 Member, Princeton, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies
• 2006 Fellow, Magdalen College, Oxford
• 2004 Fellow, Center for Ideas and Society, University of California, Riverside
• 1999 John Frederick Lewis Award for Babylonian Horoscopes (American Philosophical Society, 1998)^[4]
• 1993-94 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship^[5]
• 1982-1987 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship

• Babylonian Horoscopes. DIANE Publishing. 1998. ISBN 978-0-87169-881-0.
• The Heavenly Writing: Divination, Horoscopy, and Astronomy in Mesopotamian Culture. Cambridge University Press. 2004. ISBN 978-0-521-83010-2.
• In the Path of the Moon: Babylonian Celestial Divination and Its Legacy. Brill. 2010. ISBN 978-90-04-18389-6.
• Before Nature: Cuneiform Knowledge and the History of Science. University of Chicago Press. 2016. ISBN 978-0226406138

• Gone Crazy Out There. Kennedy & Boyd. 2008. ISBN 978-1-904999-81-2.

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