Alexandrea Ravenelle, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; a Faculty Fellow with the Center for Urban and Regional Studies; and a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. 

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Her first book, Hustle and Gig: Struggling and Surviving in the Sharing Economy,  was published by the University of California Press in March 2019.

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Ravenelle is working on two mixed methods research projects: Work in the Time of COVID-19, funded by a NSF RAPID Response grant, to study the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on precarious and gig workers in New York City, and After the Hustle, funded through a Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation inaugural Knowledge Challenge grant, examining the impact of high-status gig work and sudden platform closings on gig economy entrepreneurs.