Books
Cárcamo, Jennifer A. (under contract). Historias Prohibidas del Istmo: Central American Communists during the Rise of Twentieth Century Fascism, 1920-1940. (University of California Press, 2028).
Cárcamo, Jennifer A., Alexis N. Meza, and Ana Patricia Rodríguez (under review by Oxford University Press). Our Communities, Our Histories: Engaging Oral History Praxis Across the Salvadoran Diaspora (An Edited Volume).
Cárcamo, Jennifer A. (in-progress). Estudio y Lucha: A Radical History of the Salvadoran Student Movement in California, 2006-2016.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Cárcamo, Jennifer A. “With love and solidarity: Emerging dialogues from the film tour of Eternos Indocumentados: Central American Refugees in the United States (Cárcamo 2018) in Latin America.” Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas 21, no. 2 (2026): 225–46. https://doi.org/10.1386/slac_00134_1.
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.” Undisciplined Cuba: Tracing Continuities of Resistance and Archipelagic Geographies. 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.
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