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Dr. Alison Frank is an assistant professor of history at Harvard. 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, the Republic of Austria, and northern Italy) in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Her first book, Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia (2005), was awarded the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize and 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 two new projects, both exploring the intersection between intellectual and cultural trends, social movements, economic development, and environmental change. The first is an international environmental history of the Alps, which focuses on the commodification of mountain air. The second is 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, and is co-chair of the Russian and East European History Workshop.
Dr. Colleen Hansel's lab strives to understand the abiotic and biotic processes that govern the fate and biovailability of metals within both terrestrial and aquatic environments. Her research is at the interface of microbiology and geochemistry, utilizing a multidisciplinary approach to understand the link between microbial metabolism and metal redox chemistry. Her research team focuses primarily on the cycling of Fe and Mn due to their ubiquity within the environment, importance for microbial respiration, and necessity for primary production.
Dr. Megan Murray, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is an Instructor with both the DSMHI and the Infectious Disease unit at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Dr. Murray's research group has the following major areas of interest:
Dr. Melissa Perry came to the Occupational Health Program in 1997 bringing research interests in agricultural health and preventive intervention research. Over the past seven years she has conducted behavioral epidemiology and preventive intervention studies targeting a number of health endpoints including HIV infection, alcohol and illicit drug use, breast and lung cancer and occupational injury and disease.
She is currently conducting a six-year study of farm based preventive interventions to reduce hazardous exposures to pesticides among farmers and their families. Through both self-reported data and urinalysis from farm pesticide applicators, this study has shown that dermal and inhalation pesticide exposures are frequent and use of the required personal protective equipment necessary to reduce exposure is far from routine. This study is devising interventions to change knowledge, risk perceptions, and self-efficacy beliefs about pesticide exposure to increase safe handling practices and to reduce personal exposures among farmers and other farm setting members.
Dr. Mylène Priam is an assistant professor of romance languages and literatures. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana, and her D.E.A. from the Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France.
Her research interests include the French Caribbean; Francophone Maghreb, Machreq Africa; French Culture and Civilization; Contemporary Francophone Literature; and Metropolitan French 18th- to 20th-Century Literature.
Since 2002, Dr. Lucien Castaing Taylor has served as associate director of the Film Study Center at Harvard. He is also an assistant professor of visual and environmental studies, and anthropology and Director of the Media Anthropology Library. He earned his Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2000.
He is co-author of Cross-Cultural Filmmaking, which has been listed since 2000 as a "University of California Bestseller," and is the editor of Transcultural Cinema and of the forthcoming Cinema of Robert Gardener.
The Research Enabling Grants program (REG) is a pilot program intended to provide scholars with financial support to enable research that would otherwise suffer due to significant child care or adult dependent care obligations. REG provides funding for tenure-track faculty and benefits-eligible postdoctoral fellows who are primary caregivers.*
These competitive 1-year grants are for up to $75,000 and may be used for the following purposes:
(The REG program will not fund computers, except under unusual circumstances.)
The program’s goal is to support scholars who have the potential to become tenured faculty. Successful applications will describe:
Applications should be submitted via the online form below.
There are two funding rounds for academic year 2008. The application deadlines are:
October 5, 2007 (passed)
March 3, 2008 (passed)
*Please note that among HMS faculty and postdoctoral fellows, only those based primarily in the Quad's basic and social science departments are eligible. Faculty and postdocs based in the HMS-affiliated hospitals and research centers are not eligible.
**Funds used to pay for dependent care or travel is considered taxable income by the Internal Revenue Service.
REG awards are not subject to University or School overhead assessments.
If funded, REG recipients are expected to participate in a comprehensive assessment on the how the REG award contributed to their professional development.
Questions may be addressed to Fiona Chin in the Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity: fiona_chin@harvard.edu.