## Breadcrumb 1. [Home](/index%2Ephp/) 2. [Overview](/index%2Ephp/academics) 3. [Faculty Members](/index%2Ephp/academics/explore-faculty) 4. [Michael Prokopow](/index%2Ephp/markdownify/node/3997) # Michael Prokopow ![]() mprokopow@ocadu.ca Faculty Information Associate Professor, Tenured Faculty of Arts & Science Dr. Michael J. Prokopow is a cultural historian and curator whose areas of expertise include material and visual culture, design history, and critical and cultural theory. His many publications include, most recently, Reside: Contemporary West Coast Houses (Figure 1 Publishing: 2024), Hurvin Anderson (Lund Humphries: 2021) and Smith House II (UBC-SALA Press: 2018). Between 2004 and 2008, he was curator of the Design Exchange, Canada's only museum of 20th century industrial design. In 2016 he co-curated the touring exhibition (and accompanying catalog) True Nordic: How Scandinavia Influenced Design in Canada. He sits on the boards of the Arthur Erickson Foundation and the Nathaniel Dett Chorale and he is a regular contributor to Studio: Craft and Design in Canada. He holds a PhD from Harvard University and is a member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at OCAD University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ### Education #### Ph.D. **Type:** History Harvard University #### A.M. **Type:** History Harvard University #### M.A. **Type:** History University of New Brunswick #### B.A. (Hons) **Type:** History University of Victoria ### Employment #### Associate Profesor **Type:** Faculty of Arts and Sciences Ontario College of Art and Design