ORKIDEH MOHAJERI
- Associate Professor
- B.A., Carleton College
- M.A., University of Minnesota
- M.Ed., University of Minnesota
- Ph.D., University of Minnesota
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Biography
Orkideh Mohajeri, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Higher Education & Student Affairs. She holds a doctorate in Organizational Leadership, Policy & Development from the University of Minnesota. She also has a background in international development education and human resource development. Dr. Mohajeri's scholarship focuses on racialization and racial contestation, qualitative methods of inquiry, and the future of higher education.
Areas of Instruction
Dr. Mohajeri teaches graduate courses in Educational Leadership and Higher Education Administration, particularly courses affiliated with the Master’s of Science in Higher Education Policy & Student Affairs and the Doctorate of Education. She currently advises doctoral student research.
Dr. Mohajeri's principal specializations are in:
- Higher Education & Student Affairs
- Critical Whiteness Studies
- Critical Discourse Analysis and Critical Narrative Analysis
- Human Resource Development
She primarily teaches courses in:
- College Student Identity Development
- Qualitative Research Methodologies
- Leadership and Administration in Higher Education
- Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education
Publications and Professional Activities
Dr. Mohajeri’s most recent publications and presentations include:
Mohajeri, O. (2024). “Hot hoes” and “dirty whites”: Racial contestation and fetishization of multiracial and contested white women. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2024.2318268
Mohajeri, O., Johnston-Guerrero, M. P., Foeman, A., & Lawton, B. (2023). DNA ancestry testing and racial discourse in higher education: How the (re)biologization of race (un)settles monoracialism for graduate students. Genealogy, 7(42). https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy7020042
Mohajeri, O. (2022). Exploring contested whiteness: Useful heuristic or reinscribing dominance? Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity, 8(2), 1-39. https://doi.org/10.15763/issn.2642-2387.2022.8.2.1-39
Mohajeri, O. (2021). “Fly on the wall” moments reveal whiteness-at-work for contested white graduate students. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 35(4), 393-409. https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2021.2003897