Associate Term Professor of Global Affairs
Minor Director, Latin American Studies
Contact Information
Email: jashley4@gmu.edu
Phone: (703) 993-1110
Office Location: Horizon Hall, 6234
Biography
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.
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