Publications

Recent and other selected publications are included below. For a more complete list and links, please see my Google Scholar profile.

Books

Monograph: Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS (University of Minnesota Press, 2022)

Refereed Journal Articles

Cifor, M. & McDonald, C. (2023). “I Hope We Leave More of a Record”: Radical Queer Care within and for the AIDS INFO BBS’s Caregivers Mailing List. Feminist Media Histories. DOI: 10.1525/fmh.2023.9.1.78.

McKinney, C. & Cifor, M. (2022). On Digital Models: Responding to Viral Metaphors in Pandemic Times, Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, DOI: https://doi.org/10.28968/cftt.v8i2.36263

Cifor, M. & Rawson, K.J. (2022) Mediating Queer and Trans Pasts: The Homosaurus as Queer Information Activism, Information, Communication & Society, DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2022.2072753

Cifor, M. (2021). What is remembered lives: Time and the disruptive animacy of archiving AIDS on Instagram. Convergence 27(2).

Tian, Y., Gomez, R., Cifor, M., Wilson, J., Morgan, H. (2021). The information practices of law enforcement: Passive and active collaboration and its implication for sanctuary laws in Washington state. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 

Cifor, M. & McKinney, C. (2020). Reclaiming HIV/AIDS in digital media studies. First Monday.

Cifor, M. & Garcia, P. (2020). Gendered by Design: A Duoethnographic Study of Personal Fitness Tracking Systems. ACM Transactions on Social Computing 2(4): 1-22.

Cifor, M., Caswell, M., Migoni, A.A. & Geraci, N. (2018). ‘What We Do Crosses over to Activism’: The Politics and Practice of Community Archives. The Public Historian 40(2): 69-95.

Posner, M. & Cifor, M. (2018). Generative Tensions: Building a Digital Project on Early African American Race Film. American Quarterly 70(3): 709-713.

Cifor, M. (2017). Stains and Remains: Liveliness, Materiality, and the Archival Lives of Queer Bodies. Australian Feminist Studies 91-92: 5-21.

Cifor, M. & Wood, S. (Invited; 2017). Critical Feminism in the Archives.  Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies 1(2).

Special Issues 

Cifor, M. & McKinney, C. (2020). Special Issue on HIV/AIDS and Digital Media. First Monday 25, 10.

Cifor, M. & Lee, J.A. (2020). Special issue on Evidences, Implications, and Critical Interrogations of Neoliberalism in Information Studies. Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies 2, no. 1.

Cifor, M. & Gilliland, A.J. (2016). Special issue on Affect and the Archive, Archives and their Affects. Archival Science 16(1).

Cifor, M., Illano, L. & Wood, S. (2016). Special issue on Gender in Education and Information Studies: Interrogating Knowledge Production, Social Structures and Equitable Access. InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies 12(1).

Other Publications

Caswell, M. & Cifor, M. (2021). Revisiting a Feminist Ethics of Care in Archives: An Introductory Note. Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies 3.

Cifor, M., Garcia, P., Cowan, T.L., Rault, J., Sutherland, T., Chan, A., Rode, J., Hoffman, A.L., Salehi, N., Nakamura, L. (2019). Feminist Data Manifest-No. Retrieved from: https://www.manifestno.com/.

Cifor, M. (2017). Towards an AIDS Archive. Visual AIDS Web Gallery.