Nina Medvedev
Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies
Nina Medvedeva earned her Ph.D. in feminist studies from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her project, Home in the Sharing Economy: An Ethnography in Boston, San Francisco, and Washington D.C, draws on feminist political economy, queer of color critique, economic anthropology, and urban geography to analyze how short-term rentals like Airbnb reconfigure the home as central to the functions of racial capitalism. Medvedeva shows how municipal debates over short-term rentals create new arrangements of urban governance and inspire new housing justice social movements. Her work has appeared in a special issue of Feminist Studies on feminism and capitalism, Antipode, Real Life magazine, and the Platypus blog.
Scholarly Publications
Appointed to the Faculty
2024Educational Background
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
M.A., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
M.A., University of Maryland, College Park
B.A., University of Maryland, College Park
