Research Interests
Amanda Ciafone is a cultural historian of capitalism, especially interested in culture industries and the role of the media in constructing meaning around economic and social relations. Her research and teaching is at the nexus of various fields including cultural history and cultural studies of the United States in the world, especially Latin America; political economy; culture and media industries; and social movements. She has recently completed her first book, Counter-Cola: A Multinational History of the Global Corporation, about The Coca-Cola Company and the politics, cultural representations, and social movements around the multinational corporation.
Ciafone is also at work on a new book project on the relationship between technology and old age, as part of the new, growing field of humanistic studies of aging.
Education
- Ph.D., American Studies, Yale University
- M.A., American Studies, Yale University
- B.A., American Civilization, Brown University
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, Media and Cinema Studies
Associate Professor, Institute of Communications Research
Director of Graduate Studies, Institute of Communications Research
Associate Professor, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Associate Professor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
External Links
Highlighted Publications
Ciafone, A. M. (2019). Counter-Cola: A Multinational History of the Global Corporation. University of California Press.
Recent Publications
Ciafone, A. (2022). Care Work and the Politics of Interdependence. In M. Goldman, K. de Medeiros, & T. Cole (Eds.), Critical Humanities and Ageing: Forging Interdisciplinary Dialogues (Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003112112-29
Ciafone, A., & McGeehan Muchmore, D. (2021). Old age and radical history: Editors’ introduction. Radical History Review, 2021(139), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-8822566
Ciafone, A. (2021). The Gray Panthers are watching: gray women’s media activism in the 1970s and 80s. Feminist Media Studies, 21(2), 265-280. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2019.1667400
Ciafone, A. M. (2019). Counter-Cola: A Multinational History of the Global Corporation. University of California Press.
Ciafone, A. (2018). Selling Local Modernization through the Global Corporation: Coca-Cola Bottling in Colombia, 1927-1944. Historia y sociedad, (34), 41-75. https://doi.org/10.15446/hys.n34.65507