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Rachel Ozerkevich is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education at The University of Texas at Austin. She specializes in the visual culture surrounding spectator sports from the late 19th to early 20th centuries, focusing on the intersections of the illustrated sports press and painting. Ozerkevich's current book project, "Aesthetes Athletes: Race Capture French Sport, 1880-1917," explores the manipulation and arrangement of photomechanical images in early French sports press and how these provided vicarious experiences of major sports events for readers in Europe and North America. She holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Art History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she earned her degrees in 2022 and 2016, respectively, and a B.A. in Art History from the University of British Columbia in 2014. Her research interests include Physical Culture, Sports Photography, Sports Press History, and Sports Visual Arts.
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