Quinn O'Dowd

Quinn O’Dowd recently received her PhD in sociology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her dissertation, “Organizing the Hosts: Flexible Strategies of Formalized and Collaborative Labor in Airbnb Property Management,” examined the organization of labor in Airbnb property management using a case study from one such company operating in Prague, Czechia. Her work uses the extended case method to explore the relationships between technology and human organization in fomenting the conditions of work. 

She is currently conducting fieldwork on Airbnb property management in northern Italy and plans to write a monograph based on this multi-sited research.