Assistant Director of Faculty Research Activities Heading link

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Anna Brailovsky has been in the research development field since 2011. She was previously the Research Development Manager at the Division of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago (2018-2022) and the Coordinator of Research Development for the Social Sciences at the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota (2011 – 2018). She joined LAS in April 2022. She has a strong record of success developing proposals for a wide range of major federal and private sponsors – including the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the US Department of Agriculture, the Institute of Education Sciences, the National Institute of Justice, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Russel Sage Foundation, the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, the William T. Grant Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the Andrew Carnegie Foundation. She is active in the National Organization of Research Development Professionals and was the chair of its Mentoring Program from 2015 to 2017, and co-presented a NORDP conference panel on grant writing training for graduate students (2019). Additionally, Anna has over two decades of experience editing scholarly writing and translating from German and Russian. She has translated Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot (Modern Library, 2003) and several works of young adult fiction, one of which was named a Mildred Batchelder Honor Book for best children’s book in translation by the American Library Association. She holds a BA in Economics from Columbia University and an MA (ABD) in Art History from Johns Hopkins University. Email: abrailov@uic.edu

Graduate Research Development Assistant/Intern Heading link

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Nirupama Jayaraman (she/her) is an urban researcher, educator and a doctoral candidate at the Department of Anthropology, UIC. She has successfully applied for multiple individual research grants including an NSF REG grant, and has also been waitlisted for the AIIS Junior Fellowship. Nirupama has designed and executed multiple research projects for various organizations such as the Brookings Institution India Center, 100 Resilient Cities, and Urban Design Collective (in conjunction with GIZ Gmbh). She hopes to hone her research administrative skills during her time at the LAS Research Development office and looks forward to a career in academic adjacent spaces.

Email: njayar5@uic.edu