Alison Frank

Frank is associate professor of history at Harvard. She is interested in transnational approaches to the history of Central and Eastern Europe, particularly the Habsburg Empire and its successor states (Poland, Czechoslovakia, the Republic of Austria, and northern Italy) in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her first book, entitled Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia (2005), was awarded the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize, the Austrian Cultural Forum Book Prize, and was co-winner of the Polish Studies Association’s Orbis Prize in Polish Studies. She is currently working on a book on Austria-Hungary’s Adriatic coastline (between Trieste, Fiume/Rijeka, and Pola/Pula). She received the Roslyn Abramson Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching in 2007. She is co-chair of the German Study Group at CES and of the Russian and East European History Workshop.