#  Markian Dobczansky 

Associate Director, European Union Center, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Independent Scholar, Soviet History

 

 

 



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**Markian Dobczansky** is Associate Director of the European Union Center. He teaches classes in European Studies and serves as Director of Graduate Studies for the MAEUS program. Prior to joining the University of Illinois, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Toronto and Columbia University. He received a Ph.D. in Russian/Soviet history from Stanford University with a dissertation on the politics of culture in twentieth-century Kharkiv. His research interests include the history of the Soviet Union, Ukraine, and Russia, the politics of culture, urban history, and the Cold War. He has also worked in an administrative capacity at the Central Eurasian Studies Society, the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the U.S., and the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Dr. Dobczansky is currently an Associate at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. He speaks Ukrainian, Russian, and German, and has studied Qazaq and Armenian. Markian is a historian of Ukraine, Russia, and the Soviet Union, with special emphasis on urban history and the transnational Cold War. He received a Ph.D. in Russian/Soviet history from Stanford University and has held fellowships at the University of Toronto and Columbia University. He is currently completing a book manuscript on cultural politics in Soviet Kharkiv and continuing work on a research project on the transnational Ukrainian Cold War.



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Fields of Expertise
    
     [History](/fields-expertise/history) [Modern History](/fields-expertise/modern-history)
- ## Role
    
     [HURI Associates](/role/huri-associates)