Teaching:
Dress, Society and Culture; Fashion Fundamentals. My courses involve extensive research and analytic writing components.

Interests:
My primary research interest is the construction and expression of cultural identity through dress. I explore how dress---a modification or supplementation to the body---has been used to transform disempowered segments or entire populations in various social, political and economic contexts. I approach research from an interdisciplinary and global perspective, and I apply feminist and cultural studies theoretical frameworks and methodologies.

Education:

Selected Publications/Presentations:

Medvedev, K. "It is a garage sale at Savers every day." In C. Giorcelli & P. Rabinowitz (Eds.), Habits of being. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. (forthcoming)

Medvedev, K. Divat es bunozes az 50-es es 60-as evekben Magyarorszagon. [Crime and fashion in Hungary in the 1950s and 1960s]. In I. Simonovics & T. Valuch (Eds.), Kirakat: Divat a szocializmusban. [Shopwindow: Fashion under socialism]. Budapest: Argumentum. (forthcoming).

Medvedev, K. Hungarian urban dress. Berg Encyclopedia of world dress and fashion. Oxford/New York: Berg. (forthcoming) 

Medvedev, K. Socialism and gender. Berg encyclopedia of world dress and fashion. Oxford/New York: Berg. (forthcoming) 

Medvedev, K. (2008). Ripping up the uniform approach: Hungarian women piece together a new communist fashion. Producing fashion: Commerce, culture and consumers (pp. 250-272). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Medvedev, K. (2007).  Dress, Hungarian socialism, and  resistance. In D.C. Johnson & H.B. Foster (Eds.), Dress Sense: Emotional and sensory experiences of the body and clothes (pp. 23-35). Oxford/New York: Berg.

Medvedev, K. (2007) Designing dissent: How fashion helped undo communism. T/here: Journal of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, 3, 12-19.

Medvedev, K. (2006). Sifting through layers of satisfaction: Secondhand apparel shopping in South Korea and the United States. In Proceedings of the International Commemorative Symposium of the 60^th Anniversary of the Hong-IK University (pp. 68-73). Seoul, South Korea: University of Minnesota and Hong-IK University. 

Medvedev, K. (2005). Social class and clothing. In Encyclopedia of clothing and fashion. (Vol. 3,  pp.197-199). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

DeLong, M., Gage, K., Medvedev, K., Mckinney, E., Park, J. (2008). Learning to collaborate across cultures: Evaluating experiences of an extended cultural exchange. Paper presented at the Hawaii International Conference on Education. Honolulu, HI.

DeLong, M., Medvedev, K., McKinney, E., Park, J., Gage, K. (2007). Living on the edge: Experiences of a cultural interchange. Paper presented at the International Textile and Apparel Association annual conference. Los Angeles, CA.

Medvedev, K. (2008). Altered tastes: Thrift store shopping runs the gamut from economy to ecology. Paper presented at the Popular Culture/American Culture annual conference. San Francisco, CA.

Medvedev, K. (2007). Crimes of fashion in Hungary from the 1950s to the 1970s. Paper presented at the Fashion under socialism conference. Budapest, Hungary.

Medvedev, K. (2007). Black and white and re(a)d all over: Communist message dresses Hungarian women’s magazine in new colors. Paper presented at the Midwest Sociological Society and North Central Sociological Association's conference on Social policy, social ideology, social change. Chicago, IL.

Medvedev, K. (2007). Uniform mass(querade): Socialist women in Hungary show their true colors. Paper presented at the Defining culture through dress: Individual identities conference, Hofstra University, New York.

Medvedev, K. (2006).  Communist cache: How many dresses does it take to unveil a Hungarian story? Costume Society of America. 32^nd annual Symposium. Hartford, Connecticut.