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Orkideh Mohajeri
Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership & Higher Education Administration
University of Pennsylvania, West Chester
Education/Degree:
1 Organizational Leadership, Policy & Development (the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
About
Orkideh Mohajeri, PhD, is an assistant professor in the department of Educational Foundations & Policy Studies at West Chester University. She earned her PhD in Organizational Leadership, Policy & Development in 2018 from the University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities. Her research focuses on racial con,ation for mixed, multiracial, and transracial adoptee postsecondary students in a U.S. context. She uses critical race and poststructural approaches to discourse and narrative in an ongoing investigation of the complete falsity of race, and has advanced a theory of con,ed whiteness. Her work has been published in the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, the Journal of Access, Retention, and Inclusion in Higher Education, and Teachers College Record.
Current Work
U.S. society is very much structured by a false belief in discrete racial categories, that is monoracialism. However, there are vast and diverse populations of postsecondary students who do not fit into these reductionist categories of difference. Using critical poststructural approaches to narrative, Dr. Mohajeri's work uplifts the stories and experiences of those who are racially con,ed on a day-to-day basis in various educational settings and practices. In particular, her work advances an articulation of con,ed whiteness and investigates the role of racial discourse in upholding white supremacy. In addition to research conducted along these lines in two regions of the United Sta,EST Dr. Mohajeri has a longitudinal study focusing on the evolution of racial identity for con,ed white adults after completion of postsecondary education. Some newer research investigates how DNA ancestry ,ing contributes to the rebiologization of race and further upholds monoracism.
Research Area Keyword(s)
critical narrative inquiry, discourse, Multiracial, racial