Meet Nina Medvedeva, an interdisciplinary doctoral fellow for 2021–2022 at the IAS working on a dissertation about the political economy of short-term rentals, the evolving concept of home, and the racialized and gendered history of urban development.

Registration is now open for our full semester of IAS Thursday events! Join us for a full season of eclectic, wide-ranging, discussions designed for scholars from all walks of life. Featured guests include Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, independent journalist Georgia Fort, NASA scientist Kate Marvel, Pulitzer Prize-finalist composer Lei Liang, and many others!

Meet Zozan Pehlivan, IAS Residential Faculty Fellow for Fall 2021. She is at work on a project demonstrating the diverse impacts of El Niño-related climate fluctuations on peasants and pastoralists in late Ottoman Kurdistan/Armenia.