RESEARCH INTERESTS

Housing design, social housing, neighborhood regeneration, participatory strategies | Urban and architecture history of Eastern Europe | History of American architecture | Preservation of architectural heritage | Special topics expertise: Albert Kahn’s projects and the participation of American architects and engineers in Soviet-era industrialization: focus on Eastern Ukraine in the 1930s | Prefabrication and standardization in the housing industry | standardization and early industrialization in the USSR, post-socialist housing. 

BIOGRAPHY

Ph.D. Arch., M.Urban Planning, B.Arch. (NULP)

Dr. Oksana Chabanyuk is a Visiting Associate Professor at the Department of History, her position was supported by Scholars at Risk (SAR) Initiative at the University of Chicago. Oksana Chabanyuk is an Associate Professor of Architecture at Kharkiv National University of Urban Economy, Ukraine. 

Chabanyuk is a scholar of architecture and urbanism, with a particular focus on Ukraine and Eastern Europe. She is teaching courses on architecture and urban history in Eastern European Studies covering Soviet-era architecture in Ukraine and cultural heritage, as well as European architecture and architecture of industrialization. Her book project is focused on the history of USA-USSR technological transfers in the 1930s and the contribution of American architects and engineers to the development of industry and cities in 1920-30s Eastern Ukraine. Chabanyuk authored a chapter “The Forgotten History of Foreign Specialists in Soviet Industry in the 1920 and 1930s: The Case of Eastern Ukraine” in the book 

Detroit-Moscow-Detroit: An Architecture for Industrialization, 1917-1945 (MIT Press, 2023). Her research was supported by a Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Scholars at Risk Fellowship (2022-2025) and the Fulbright Program as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar (2019-2020) at the University of Michigan, CREES and the WCEE, and by the Scholar Research Grant from Hoover Institution Library and Archives, Stanford University (2023). 

Oksana Chabanyuk is an architect, urban planner, and architectural historian. She received a Bachelor's degree in Architecture, a Master's degree in Urban Planning, and a Ph.D. in Architecture (Theory of Architecture, Preservation of Architectural Heritage) from Lviv Polytechnic National University in Ukraine. Her working trajectory has been characterized by a hybrid of overlapping activities in teaching, international academic visiting positions, intensive research, and design. Oksana Chabanyuk taught courses in the history of architecture and cultural studies for B.Sc., M.Arch., and Ph.D. programs at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, University of Michigan (2022-2025), while also contributing her expertise in housing design to Architecture Design Studio Project Reviews at Taubman College. Oksana has been teaching Architectural Design Studio and pursuing research at the Technological University Dublin in Ireland (2015), the University of Lisbon in Portugal (2014-2015) and Lublin University of Technology in Poland (2016-2018). She participated in the Visiting Teachers Program at the AA School of Architecture, London (2010). She was appointed as a Visiting Lecturer at Nuremberg Institute of Technology, Germany (2022). Her expertise in neighborhood regeneration and housing design enabled her to serve as an External Expert at the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency, European Commission in Brussels, Belgium. Her research has been published by MIT Press and Columbia University Press.