Katalin Medvedev
University of Georgia

Katalin Medvedev received her Ph.D. in the social, psychological and cultural aspects of dress from the University of Minnesota in 2006. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Textiles, Merchandising and Interiors at the University of Georgia. Her research focuses on the social, political and gendered aspects of material culture. Her other publications on Hungarian socialist dress appeared in "Producing fashion: Commerce, culture and consumers" by Pennsylvania University Press; in "Öltöztessük fel az országot!: Divat és öltözködés a szocializmusban" by Argumentum; in "Dress sense: Emotional and sensory experiences of the body and clothes" by Berg and the "Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion" by Oxford University Press.