Nina Medvedeva
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Nina Medvedeva is a Ph.D. candidate whose research explores what short-term rental regulation debates can teach us about how city residents imagine and govern the home. Focusing on the Airbnb debates in Boston, Washington D.C., and San Francisco, her dissertation draws on economic anthropology, feminist political economy, and queer of color critique to analyze how residents make claims that challenge, enforce, or change the hegemonic definition of home. Nina is the recipient of the University of Minnesota-Social Science Research Council Interdisciplinary Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (2018), the Race, Indigeneity, Gender & Sexuality Studies Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (2018), and the Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant (2019). She was a research intern at the Microsoft Research New England Social Media Collective (Summer 2019).