Alumni
Dragana Mrvos
Contact
Office: SOC 012
Email: dmrvos@usf.edu
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Bio
During my Ph.D. at the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies, I have taught several introductory and upper-level courses, including Introduction to Comparative Politics, Introduction to International Relations, American Foreign Policy, and Politics of Developing Areas. In addition to a diverse teaching portfolio, my concentration is on researching the profit-making dynamics in the gig economy and their implications on collective labor organizing. In my dissertation, I look primarily at ride-hailing platforms to examine how advanced technology in the hands of capitalists facilitates more sophisticated exploitation and generation of profit compared with the earlier times. The analyses confirm the profoundly political nature of exploitation and alienation and challenging prospects of sustained labor organization. The proposed argumentation uses the Autonomist Marxist concept of “social factory” as a meta-framework, drawing on original ethnographic and interview data on ride-hailing Uber drivers in the gig economy.
Education
2015 - 2020 Ph.D. Government (in progress), University of South Florida
2010 - 2012 MS in International Politics, University of Belgrade, Serbia
2009 - 2010 Department of Politics and Government, Illinois State University,
USA
2006 – 2009 Bachelor in International Relations, University of Belgrade, Serbia