Jennifer Ashley

Acting Director

Associate Professor

Digital media, television, news media, melodrama, parody, political campaigns, Political subjectivity, politics of affect, democratization, social movements, human rights, memory, urban studies, Latin America

Jennifer Ashley is a Term Associate Professor in the Global Affairs Program and the Director of the Latin American Studies minor. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology at Brown University. Her research focuses on media and political change in Latin America. She is currently researching Chile's 2019-2020 protests and the 2021-2023 attempts to write a new constitution.

Ashley was awarded a 2022-23 ACLS Digital Justice Seed Grant for her project "The Afterlife of the 1988 Chilean Plebiscite". She is in the process of developing a digital humanities site on this project, which can be found here: www.chile88.cl.

Selected Publications

Ashley, Jennifer and Jennifer Pribble. 2025. "From Dignity to “Screw Them”: Emotion, Policy, and Generic Appeals in Chile’s Constitutional Television Campaigns. Latin American Research Review, 1–19. doi:10.1017/lar.2025.10098

Ashley, Jennifer. 2022. “The Art of Living Together: The Work of Caiozzama, Delight Lab, and LASTESIS during Chile’s 2019-2020 Protests.” Anthropologica 64 (2): 1-7. doi.org/10.18357/anthropologica64220221545

Ashley, Jennifer. 2020. “Context as Content in Chilean Community Media.” In Cultures of the Copy: Alternative Economies and Intellectual Property in Latin/o America, edited by Juan Poblete and Víctor Goldgel Carballo. New York: Routledge.

Ashley, Jennifer. 2018. Chilean Television on Shifting Terrain: Movement towards a Post-Network Era. Television and New Media 20(5): 476-491. doi/10.1177/1527476418776416

Ashley, Jennifer. 2015. "Honorable Piracy" and Chile’s Digital Transition. Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture (Special Issue on Piracy and Social Change) 13(1): 6-17. doi.org/10.1080/15405702.2014.978002

Ashley, Jennifer. 2014. Prime-time politics: News, parody, and fictional credibility in Chile. American Ethnologist 41(4): 757-770. doi.org/10.1111/amet.12110

Courses Taught

GLOA 101: Introduction to Global Affairs

GLOA 386: Media, Technology, and Globalization

GLOA 396: Humor and Global Politics

GLOA 491/492: Honors Seminar

GLOA 605: Interdisciplinary Research Methods

HNRS 260: Global Student Movements