Rachel Ozerkevich has been a visiting assistant professor at Kenyon since January 2023. She previously taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she received her Ph.D. in 2022.
Her research focuses on the visual field surrounding spectator sports in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, particularly the intersections between the illustrated sports press and painting. Her work examines how retouching, manipulation, and the arrangement of photomechanical images provided readers in Europe and North America vicarious experiences of major sports events. She is especially interested in how similar the techniques and aims of anonymous overpainters in the sports press were to those of several major modernist painters and printmakers between the 1880s and First World War.
Ozerkevich’s writing has been published or is in press in Olympika, Iron Game History: The Journal of Physical Culture, 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, and Sport History Review. She is currently preparing her first book, tentatively titled "Aesthetes and Athletes: Media Debates and French Sports Images, 1881-1914."
Her teaching interests span the history of photography, art and sports, the history of North American architecture, Indigenous arts of Canada and the U.S., and European modernisms.
Areas of Expertise
French and North American modern art (1850-1960), sports history and physical culture
Education
2022 — Doctor of Philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2016 — Master of Arts from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2014 — Bachelor of Arts from the University of British Columbia