Professor Medved’s scholarship focuses on issues work-life communication from gender and feminist theoretical lens. She has published studies and essays on various topics, including: breadwinning mother and stay-at-home father couples, working mothers’ identity struggles, infertility and identity, single-employee workplace backlash, and work and family socialization.
Her research has appeared in outlets such as Women’s Studies Quarterly, Women & Language, Management Communication Quarterly, Communication Yearbook, and Journal of Family Communication. She is past editor of the Journal of Family Communication (Taylor & Francis).
Grant Funding:
Principle Investigator, PSC-CUNY 39 (2008-2009). $2, 978.40 for transcription & GA support.
Principle Investigator, PSC-CUNY40 (2009-2010). $5,093 for course reduction for research.
Principle Investigator, PSC-CUNY 41 (2010-2011). $5,093 for course reduction for research.
Principle Investigator: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (2007-2009), awarded $39,000 grant.
Principle Investigator: Ohio University Research Council (2005-2006).
Team Member: W.K.Kellogg Foundation (1998-2001). Member of an inter-disciplinary research team. Total Costs for Evaluation, $1,569,794.