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Jennifer Jenkins is a researcher and professor with a diverse background in American literatures, visual cultures, and information science. She holds advanced degrees in these fields and has made contributions to various aspects of film history, cultural preservation, and curatorial work. Her expertise centers around the non-theatrical moving image, particularly in the context of the Southwest United States and Mexico, and mainstream US, French, and Mexican cinema.
Jenkins has curated the Puro Mexicano Tucson Film Festival and contributed to exhibits for institutions such as the Arizona Historical Society and the UA Museum of Art. She's also the founder of Home Movie Day Tucson and the Tombstone Home Movie Project, both focused on celebrating and preserving amateur, locally-made films in the Arizona-Sonora borderlands. She is involved in restoring Teatro Carmen, the oldest extant Spanish-language theatre in a Sonoran rowhouse context in the US, and longtime Black Elks Club in Tucson’s Barrio Viejo.
One of her significant endeavors involves collaborating with Indigenous communities to reinterpret midcentury educational and industrial films. She has brought a digital archive of films by and about Native peoples of the Americas to the University of Arizona, actively engaging in “Tribesourcing,” which involves creating culturally competent metadata and alternate Native narrations for these films. This project received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in 2017 and 2022. She is also co-PI on a joint US-UK digital humanities grant, Indigenous Knowledges. In the summer of 2022, she joined Southwest Center faculty in hosting an NEH K-12 teacher-training workshop on Arizona-Sonora Borderlands: Palimpsest of Cultures.
Jenkins serves as the director of the Bear Canyon Center for Southwest Humanities, where she focuses on preserving and disseminating the arts, literatures, and visual cultures of the region. In 2019, she held the prestigious Cátedra Primo Feliciano Velázquez at Colegio de San Luis in San Luis Potosi, Mexico.
Her notable publications include 'Celluloid Pueblo: Western Ways Films and the Invention of the Postwar Southwest' (U Arizona Press, 2016) and the co-edited 'Patrimonio efímero: memorias, cultura popular, y vida cotidiana' (COLSAN, 2021), and forthcoming 'Historia Publica' (COLSAN, 2024) with Adriana Corral Bustos. Jenkins has authored more than two dozen book chapters and journal articles, and presented at national and international meetings of film archivists, historians, and American and Comparative literature societies.
Currently, Jenkins is working on a project entitled "Screening Americans: Cinema and Citizenship in Japanese Internment Camps and the Manhattan Project in the Southwest, 1942-46." This study involves a comparative analysis of films screened at Los Alamos and Poston and Gila internment camps during WWII.
Her work showcases her dedication to cultural preservation, historical research, and the intersections between film, identity, and regional history.
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Southwestern Historical Quarterlyno. 3 (2023): 389-390
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference of the Learning Sciences - ICLS 2023 Proceedings of the International Conference of the Learning Sciences (2023)
LEARNING CULTURE AND SOCIAL INTERACTION (2023): 100754-100754
COLONIAL ENCOUNTERS IN A TIME OF GLOBAL CONFLICT, 1914-1918 (2022)
KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studiesno. 1 (2021)
KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studiesno. 1 (2021): 1-7
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MIND REELING: Psychopathology on Filmpp.129-153, (2020)
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