This page contains information on various awards and honors bestowed upon members of the MELC Department.
1. UC Berkeley Awards and Honors
Faculty Research Lectures
1930 William Popper
1939 Henry Lutz
1998 Robert Alter
2008 Daniel Boyarin
2023 Francesca Rochberg, "The History and Transmission of a Babylonian Astronomical Idea"
Distinguished Teaching Award
1959 William Brinner
Berkeley Citation
1991 William Brinner
2. National Awards and Honors
Guggenheim Fellowship
3. Recent Faculty Book Awards
- Porter, Benjamin (2013) Complex Communities: The Archaeology of Early Iron Age West-Central Jordan. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
- Winner of the 2014 G. Ernest Wright Publications Award from the American Society of Overseas Research.
4. Festschriften & Gedenkschriften
- William Popper: Semitic and Oriental Studies: A Volume Presented to William Popper, Professor of Semitic Languages, Emeritus, on the Occasion of His Seventy-fifth Birthday, October 29, 1949, ed. by Walter J. Fischel (Berkeley: UC Press, 1951).
- Walter B. Henning: W.B. Henning Memorial Volume, ed. by Mary Boyce and Ilya Gershevitch (London: Lund Humphries, 1970).
- Walter J. Fischel: Jewish Tradition in the Diaspora: Studies in Memory of Professor Walter J. Fischel, ed. by M.S. Caspi (Berkeley: Magnes Memorial Museum, 1981).
- Mounah Khouri: Tradition and Modernity in Arabic Literature: Essays in Honor of Mounah Khouri, ed. by Issa J. Boullata and Terri De Young (Fayetteville: U of Arkansas Press, 1997).
- David Stronach: Special issue of Iranica Antiqua No. 33: Festschrift David Stronach (1998).
- William M. Brinner: Judaism and Islam: Boundaries, Communication, and Interaction: Essays in Honor of William M. Brinner, ed. by Fred Astren, Benjamin Hary, and John L. Hayes (Leiden: Brill, 2000).
- Anne Draffkorn Kilmer: Strings and Threads: A Celebration of the Work of Anne Draffkorn Kilmer, ed. by Wolfgang Heimpel and Gabriella Szabo (Penn State Press, 2011).
- Chana Kronfeld: Special issue of Journal of Jewish Identities 7/1: The Berkeley School of Jewish Literature: Inspired by and In Honor of Chana Kronfeld, ed. by David Shneer and Robert Adler-Peckerar (2014)
- Daniel Boyarin: Talmudic Transgressions: Engaging the Work of Daniel Boyarin, ed. by Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert, Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Aharon Shemesh, Moulie Vidas, in collaboration with James Adam Redfield (Leiden: Brill, 2017).
- Francesca Rochberg: "The Scaffolding of Our Thoughts": Essays on Assyriology and the History of Science in Honor of Francesca Rochberg, ed. by C. Jay Crisostomo, Eduardo A. Escobar, Terri Tanaka, and Niek Veldhuis (Leiden: Brill, 2018).
- Cathleen Keller: Weseretkau 'Mighty of Kas': Papers in Memory of Cathleen A. Keller, ed. by Deanna Kiser-Go and Carol A. Redmount (Providence: Lockwood Press, 2023).