Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Faculty & Staff
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.
