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Chelsi West Ohueri is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, with additional appointments in the Department of Anthropology and the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies. Her scholarship focuses on the study of race, racialization, belonging, and marginalization, particularly through the lens of medical anthropology and ethnographic writing. Dr. West Ohueri has conducted extensive ethnographic research in Albania and the Balkan region, examining the configurations of racial belonging within Albanian, Romani, and Egyptian communities. Her work interrogates the (re)productions of whiteness and blackness in the region, contributing to the understanding of race in Europe. She is the author of 'Encountering Race in Albania: Ethnography of the Communist Afterlife.' Her research has been funded by various organizations including the Ford Foundation and the National Science Foundation, and published in journals such as Slavic Review and Medical Anthropology. Dr. West Ohueri teaches courses on race, nation, health, illness, anthropological methods, and ethnographic writing.
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