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 Alison Frank Assistant Professor Department of History Harvard University afrank(at)fas.harvard.edu Alison Frank is assistant professor of history at Harvard University. She is interested in transnational approaches to the history of Central and Eastern Europe, in particular the Habsburg Empire and its successor states (including Poland, Czechoslovakia, and the Republic of Austria) in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her first book, Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia (2005), traces the political, social, cultural, and environmental history of oil production in the Habsburg Empire.Before joining Harvard's faculty, Frank was assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is currently working on three new projects. The first is an article on Standard Oil's unsuccessful attempt to dominate the Austrian refining industry in the early twentieth century. The second is an environmental history of the Alps, in which she argues that fresh mountain air was commodified over the course of the nineteenth century. The third is a book on Austria-Hungary's Adriatic coastline (between Trieste, Fiume/Rijeka, and Pola/Pula), exploring the intersection between intellectual and cultural trends, social movements, economic development, and environmental change. Frank received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2001. Contributions |
