Jennifer A. Cárcamo is a Salvadoran independent filmmaker and scholar. She is currently a University of California President’s and Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Irvine in the Chicano/Latino Studies Department, where she is completing her book manuscript Historias Prohibidas del Istmo: Central American Communists during the Rise of Twentieth Century Fascism, 1920-1940. She holds a PhD in History from UCLA and an MA in Documentary Film and History from Syracuse University. Her research has been published in the Latin American Law Review, Anuario de Estudios Centroamericanos, Journal of Race and Class, and Johns Hopkins Feminist Formations, where she was awarded “Best Paper” in 2024 by the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA). Her first documentary, Children of the Diaspora: For Peace and Democracy, premiered in June 2013, and her second film, Eternos Indocumentados: Central American Refugees in the United States, premiered in December 2018. She is a social historian specializing in the contemporary transnational history of mass organizations and political movements within, across, and outside Central America/Mesoamerica. Professional Website: https://jennifercarcamo.com/
