Dr. Olga Kozubska

Institut für vergleichende Städtegeschichte
Research fellow
Raum 2.11
Königsstraße 46
48143 Münster

T+49 251 83 275 28
kozubska@uni-muenster.de

Vita

June 2025
Institut für vergleichende Städtegeschichte
Research fellow with the project „Town-halls in “Private” Towns. Functional and Architectural Analysis“ (MSCA4Ukraine, EU Horizon / Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung)

2023–2025
Institut für vergleichende Städtegeschichte
Research fellow with the project “Historical survey maps and the comparative study of the functionality and morphology of urban space. Standardisation – Digital processing – Research“ / HiSMaComp (DFG)

2022–2023
University of Münster
Fellow at Käte Hamburger Kolleg „Einheit und Vielfalt im Recht | Legal Unity and Pluralism“(EVIR)

2007–2018
Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt a.M. / Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte, Frankfurt a.M. / Institut für vergleichende Städtegeschichte, Münster / Centrum für Religionswissenschaftliche Studien (CERES), Bochum
Fellowships

2014–2015
National Aviation University, Kyiv, Ukraine
Diploma in Program Engineering

2004–2009
Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv, Ukraine), Department of Classical, Byzantine and Medieval Studies
Lecturer

2007
Central European University Budapest
PhD in Medieval history „Urban Development and German Law in Galician Rus’ during the thirteenth – fifteenth centuries” (in English)

2004
I. Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies of Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. Lviv, Ukraine
Candidate of Sciences “Religious Gothic Architecture of Lviv. A Historical Context” (in Ukrainian)

1989–1998
Faculty of Art History and Theory, Ukrainian Academy of Arts, Kyiv, Ukraine / Central European University. Budapest, Hungary / Kathoelike Universiteit Leuven
Major: History and Art History

Main Research Interests

Urban History

History of Mendicant Orders

History of Architecture

History of Long-Distance Trade

Legal History

Selected Publications

Quoniam anima civitatis sit ordo... Discourse of urban order in Kamianets Podilskyi during the 18th century, in: Francesco Panarelli/Rosa Smurra (Hg.), Discourses on Urban Order (Series: Mondi Mediterranei 15), Matera 2025, S. 127–164.

The Merchant and the Ruler. Strategies for Ensuring Predictability on Trade Routes in Late Medieval Red Rus’ in: Ulla Kypta/Gregor Rohman (Hg.), How to Ensure Predictability in Legal Pluralism. Northern Europe in the Later Middle Ages, Münster 2024, S. 33–63.

Urban Religious Communities in Magdeburg Law Privileges. Models in Dealing with Religious Diversity in: Ulrike Ludwig (Hg.), Gesellschaftliche Diversität und Phänomene rechtlicher Einheit und Vielfalt in der vormodernen Stadt. Effekte konfessioneller und religiöser Diversität, EViR Working Papers, Bd. 7, Münster 2023, S. 37–49.

Das Magdeburger Recht in den historischen Ländern der heutigen Ukraine. Historiografie– Rezeption – Nachleben, in: Gabriele Köster/Christina Link (Hg.), Faszination Stadt. Die Urbanisierung Europas im Mittelalter und das Magdeburger Recht (Magdeburger Museumsschriften 1), Magdeburg 2019, S. 732–746.

Becoming a Citizen. Formation of Communities and Urban Liberties in former Kievan Rus’ Principalities, in: Michel Pauly/Franz Irsigler (Hg.), Urban liberties and citizenship from the Middle Ages up to now, Trier 2011, S. 69–100.

‘propter disparitatem linguae et religionis pares non esse’. ‘Minority’ Communities in Medieval and Early Modern Lviv, in: Derek Keene/Katalin Szende (Hg.), Segregation – Integration – Assimilation. Religious and Ethnic Groups in Central and Eastern Europe (Historical Urban Studies XXX), London 2009, S. 51–67.

German Law in Medieval Galician Rus’ [Rotreussen], in: Rechtsgeschichte (Rg) 13 (2008), S. 25–46.

Ius Theutonicum Magdeburgense in Ruthenian Privileges in the Fourteenth and the Fifteenth Century, in: Proceedings of the International Conference “European Cities of Magdeburg Law: Tradition, Heritage, Identity”, Krakau 2007.