Markian Prokopovych

Dr. Markian Prokopovych is a Researcher in the Department of History at Durham University and a member of the Centre for Ukraine Studies. He specializes in Modern European History, Cultural and Urban History, East-Central Europe, the Habsburg Empire and its successor states, Ukraine, Museums and Visual Culture, and Migration.

• Research Interests: Modern European History, Cultural and Urban History, East-Central Europe, Habsburg Empire, Ukraine, Museums and Visual Culture, Migration.

His scholarly work focuses on the interplay between urban development, cultural institutions, and imperial dynamics in the Habsburg Empire and successor states. He has published extensively on topics such as the role of art museums in shaping urban elites, the architectural evolution of design museums, and the impact of migration on 19th-century European cities.

Prokopovych has contributed to edited volumes and journals like Austrian History Yearbook and Austrian Studies, addressing themes such as language diversity, opera networks, and the materiality of identification in urban contexts. His co-edited works include The Museum Age in Austria-Hungary and Liberalism, Nationalism and Design Reform in the Habsburg Empire.