PhD. in History, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Her research focuses on 20th-century Ukrainian historiography, the history of academic scholarship in Ukraine and the diaspora, and the life and work of Mykhailo Hrushevsky. Her research interests include the anthropology of academic life, historical visual sources (particularly visual sources related to the Holodomor), and digital information resources.

She is the initiator and co-coordinator of the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Digital Archives  (2016). The model for this digital resource served as the basis for the Holodomor Digital Archives (2020) and the Visual History database of the Institute of History of Ukraine (2021). In 2025, as part of the joint Swiss-Ukrainian project Mykhailo Drahomanov: Switzerland on Ukraine's Intellectual Map of Europe, she joined the creation of The Mykhailo Drahomanov Digital Archive.

During her residency at the Center for Urban History, Oksana Yurkova will familiarize herself with the Center’s work and resources in the field of digital humanities.