Juan Camareno García

Juan Camareno García

(San Juan, 1998) is a Ph.D.student in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University. He holds both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in History from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. His research has focused on the memory and history of the Latin American left, marxism, conceptual history, armed struggle, and violence. In 2019, he published his first collection of poems, Canto la rebeldía. He also holds a master’s degree in Urban and Territorial Planning from the University of Puerto Rico. 

In 2022, he defended his master’s thesis titled “Historia intelectual de la lucha armada clandestina en Puerto Rico (1970–1989)”. From 2023 to 2025, he served as editor-in-chief of Cuadernos de Investigación Histórica, the journal of the Department of History at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. In 2024, he worked on the Puerto Rico Archival Collaboration–Mellon Foundation project, cataloging historical documents at the General Archive of Puerto Rico.

He also collaborates with the Centro de Documentación e Investigación de la Cultura de Izquierdas (CeDInCI) in Argentina on several projects, including the Diccionario Biográfico de las Izquierdas Latinoamericanas. As part of his final master’s project in planning, he and his colleagues developed the Plan de Uso y Cuidado de lo Común de la Finca Las Perdices en Ciales, Puerto Rico for the Community Land Trust for Sustainable Agriculture (FiTiCAS)—a practical and conceptual project in defense of the commons. In April 2025 he became a Licensed Professional Planner. 

As a Ph.D student, his research focuses on the interpretations and representations of the concept of "hegemony." His research explores the political, artistic, and literary corpus of Latin American intellectuals, artists, and writers to examine how this concept has been constructed, interpreted, and represented. He also examines how it has shaped writing practices, the role of intellectuals, and the production, reception, and circulation of ideas. His work explores the limits and tensions between cultural and intellectual history, literary criticism, and cultural studies.

Publications: 

  • “Historia intelectual de la lucha armada clandestina en Puerto Rico (1970–1989).” Master Thesis, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus, June, 2022. https://repositorio.upr.edu/handle/11721/2969.
  • “Apuntes para armar futuras aproximaciones a la historia de la lucha armada clandestina y la izquierda en Puerto Rico.” Cuadernos de Investigación Histórica 9, November, 2024. https://revistas.upr.edu/index.php/cih/article/view/21659/19161.
  • "Esencia del despojo y desplazamiento de lo común." Cabo Rojo es nuestro: Antología de ponencias sobre la Declaración de Impacto Ambiental (DIA) del megaproyecto de lujo “Esencia (Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico). Llenín Figueroa, Beatriz, comp., Lissette Rolón Collazo y Vanessa Vilches Norat, eds. Editora Educación Emergente, July 2025.
  • “Abriendo camino hacia la soberanía alimentaria: una discusión sobre el acceso a la tierra, la planificación de lo común y la agroecología en Puerto Rico.” Encuentros, vol. 1, October, 2025. https://planificacion.uprrp.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Encuentros_V1_beta.pdf.