Center for Urban History of East Central Europe

Bohdan Shumylovych

Art historian, head of the Urban Media Archive at the Center for Urban History.
Obtained a master’s degree in modern history from the Central European University, and a diploma in art history from the Lviv Academy of Arts. In 2014 he received a grant from the European University Institute in Florence to conduct research entitled "Mediascape of Lviv: Late 1950s - 1980s."
At the Center for Urban History, he coordinates the Urban Media Archive, gives lectures, participates in the development of the Centre for Urban History’s thematic exhibitions, and carries out research. The main focus of his work is media history and the history of television in East Central Europe and the Soviet Union, as well as the interaction of digital history and traditional historiography.