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Carolyn Hardin
Associate Professor, Media and Communication and American Studies; Associate Director, The Humanities Center
Media, Journalism, and Film

Carolyn Hardin

Contact Info

513-529-2752
115A Williams Hall

Carolyn Hardin is associate professor of Media and Communication at Miami University in Ohio. She is also the assistant director of The Humanities Center at Miami.

She holds a Ph.D. in communication and cultural studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Her research centers on intersections of culture, economy, and technology in such contexts as the financial crisis, retirement investing, consumer debt, mobile payment technologies, political rhetoric, and television fandom. Carolyn teaches courses on media criticism, consumer culture, and undergraduate research.
Her work has been published in the Journal of Cultural Economy, the Journal of Fandom Studies, and Convergence.

Her book on arbitrage and risk in US society, entitled "Capturing Finance: Arbitrage and Social Domination,"  was published by Duke University Press in 2021. 

Carolyn is also co-founder and principal consultant at Vocable Communications. 



Education

Ph.D., Ccommunication and Cultural Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Publications

  •  Hardin, Carolyn (2023). “The Transformable Canon,” Journal of Fandom Studies 11, no. 1, pp. 59-79.
  • Hinck, Ashley and Carolyn Hardin (2023). “Civic Culture in the Supernatural Fandom: Misha Collins, Destiel, and the 2020 US Presidential Election,” Convergence 29, no. 6.
  • Ascher, Ivan, Carolyn Hardin, Steven Klein, Johnna Montgomery, and Emily Rosamond (2022). “Finance and the Financialization of Capitalism.” In James Chamberlain and Albena Azmanova eds.,Capitalism, Democracy, Socialism: Critical Debates. Springer.
  • Hardin, Carolyn. (2021) Capturing Finance: Arbitrage and Social Domination. Duke University Press.
  • Hardin, Carolyn and Adam Rottinghaus (2020). “Risk and Arbitrage.” In Robert Wosnitzer and Christian Borch, eds., Routledge Handbook for Critical Finance Studies. Routledge.
  • Hardin, Carolyn and Armond Towns (2019). “Plastic Empowerment: Financial Literacy and Black Economic Life.” American Quarterly 71, no. 4, pp. 969-992.
  • Hardin, Carolyn (2017). “The Politics of Finance: Cultural Economy, Cultural Studies and the Road Ahead.” Journal of Cultural Economy 10, no. 4, pp. 325-338.