Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Faculty
She/They
Minné 328
507.457.2791
Mary Jo Klinker graduated with a BS in Biology and Women’s Studies from University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire, and a PhD in American Studies from Washington State University, where she taught in the Department of Critical Culture, Gender & Race Studies prior to teaching at WSU.
Engaging activism in the classroom is central to Mary Jo’s pedagogy and fuels their research, which utilizes ethnographic and participatory action methodologies and focuses on the relation of queer activism and theory to feminist anti-imperialist organizing.
Her teaching interests include LGBTQ+ studies and history, abolition feminist and queer politics, and transnational feminist solidarity.
Mary Jo’s writing has most recently been published in Radical Teacher: A socialist, feminist, and anti-racist journal.
Nina Medvedeva earned her PhD in Feminist Studies from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
Her project, “At 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, urban geography, and social movement studies to analyze how short-term rentals like Airbnb reconfigure the home as central to the functions of racial capitalism.
She 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.
Medvedeva previously served as a postdoctoral fellow in Women’s and Gender Studies at Hamilton College.
