Books

Cárcamo, Jennifer A. (under review by UC Press). Historias Prohibidas del Istmo: Central American Communists during the Rise of Twentieth Century Fascism, 1920-1940.

Cárcamo, Jennifer A., Alexis N. Meza, and Ana Patricia Rodriguez (under review by Oxford University Press). My Community, My History, My Praxis: Approaches to Oral History in the Salvadoran Diaspora (An Edited Volume).

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Cárcamo, Jennifer A. “Bananas and (Wo)men: Communist Schoolteachers, Socialist Feminism, and the Making of Costa Rica’s First Communist Party, 1920–1940,” Feminist Formations: Johns Hopkins University Press, 37, no. 1 (2025): 27–52, https://doi.org/10.1353/ff.2025.a96222. Awarded Best Paper (2024) by the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA).

Cárcamo, Jennifer A. “No Olvides Nunca: Early Twentieth-Century Fascism and Afroindigenous Marxism in El Salvador,” Race & Class, May 2025, 1–19, https://doi.org/10.1177/03063968251335878.

Cárcamo, Jennifer A. “Searching for Central America’s ‘Rebel Archives’ and Communist Histories: Notes from the Field.” Anuario de Estudios Centroamericanos 49 (2023): 1–37. https://doi.org/10.15517/aeca.v49i00.60482.

Abrego, Leisy J., and Jennifer A. Cárcamo. “Misrepresented Insecurities: An Annotated Interview about Displacement and Resistance of Central America’s ‘Eternos Indocumentados’”. Latin American Law Review, no. 07 (2021): 123-142, https://doi.org/10.29263/lar07.2021.08.

Book Chapters

Cárcamo, Jennifer A. (forthcoming) “Por un cine imperfecto en el siglo 21: Understanding Contemporary Cuban cinema through ephemera from the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry.” An Undisciplined Look at Cuba. Edited by Mrinalini Tankha, Christina Garcia, and Yairamaren Roman Maldonado. (Rutgers University Press: UC-CUBA Edited Volume, 2026).

Cárcamo, Jennifer A. “Honoring Our Mothers the Domestic Workers: Salvadoran Student-Community Organizing in California.” Central American Women in Diaspora: Testimonios of the Generations. Edited by Karina Alma and Ester Hernandez (University of Arizona Press, 2026).

Cárcamo, Jennifer A. “Fuimos Muchxs: Young women and queers in the post-cold war Salvadoran student movement in California.” Centroamérica 1989: 30 Years, 30 Reflections. Edited by Aleksander Aguilar Antunes, Carmen Elena Villacorta, Esteban de Gori, Enrique Ochoa, and Mercedes Seone (Uruk Editores, O-Istmo: Articulación Centroamericanista, 2025).

Book Reviews

Cárcamo, Jennifer A. “Suffer the Little Children: Child Migration and the Geopolitics of Compassion in the United States (Review).” H-Diplo: Network on Diplomatic History and International Affairs, Nov. 2023. h-net.org, https://networks.h-net.org/group/reviews/20013408/carcamo-casavantes-bradford-suffer-little-children-child-migration-and

Cárcamo, Jennifer. “Poets and Prophets of Resistance: Intellectuals and the Origins of El Salvador’s Civil War (Review).” NACLA, 7 Aug. 2020. nacla.org, https://nacla.org/news/2020/08/06/poets-and-prophets-review.

Media/Public Scholarship

Cárcamo, Jennifer A., Carla Macal, and Alexis Meza, “We Have a Duty to Resist and Defend Our Communities: Central American Scholars Condemn Recent ICE Raids and the Criminalization of Protesters in Los Angeles,” Migrant Roots Media, June 14, 2025.

Selected Creative Writing

Cárcamo, Jennifer A (forthcoming). “¿Estás feliz, mija?: A Salvi Queer Coming Out Tale.” CentroMariconadas: A Queer and Trans Central American Anthology. Edited by Maya Chinchilla. (Los Angeles: Kórima Press). Print.

Cárcamo, Jennifer A. “She Reminds Me.” Lines of Velocity: Words that Move. By Keren Taylor. Los Angeles, CA: WriteGirl, 2007. 200-201. Print.

Cárcamo, Jennifer A. “Moments.” Growing up Girl: An Anthology of Voices from Marginalized Spaces. By Michelle Sewell. Washington, DC: GirlChild, 2006. 264-265. Print.

Cárcamo, Jennifer A. “Memoria de mis Abuelitas.” Nothing Held Back: Truth and Fiction from WriteGirl. By Keren Taylor. Los Angeles, CA: WriteGirl, 2005. Print.