Rachel Ozerkevich

Dr. Rachel Ozerkevich is Assistant Professor of Instruction of Physical Culture and Sport Studies in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Texas at Austin. She was previously Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History at Kenyon College. She received her PhD and MA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2022, and her BA from the University of British Columbia. 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. Ozerkevich's book project, "Aesthetes and Athletes: The Race to Capture French Sport, 1880-1917," examines how painterly retouching, manipulation, and the arrangement of photomechanical images in the early French sports press provided readers in Europe and North America vicarious experiences of major sports events.