Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies and The College at the University of Chicago, with affiliated appointments in the Center for Latin American Studies and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh and serves as co-editor at Critical Inquiry. Her research pioneers the concept of the “process genre”—a transmedial category depicting step-by-step production processes that aestheticize labor as skilled and artisanal across ideological spectrums. She employs hemispheric frameworks to analyze race, labor, and “the people” in Latin American political cinema, Third Cinema, and nonfiction media, revealing how representations intersect with power structures and historical trauma. Recent publications examine police representation in “Filming the Police,” domestic labor in Roma, and the legacy of The Battle of Chile. Her work spans Cinema Journal, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, and The Routledge Companion to Latin American Cinema, demonstrating methodological rigor in visual analysis and political theory. Major recognitions include: Best First Book Prize (Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 2021) PROSE Book Awards Finalist (Media and Cultural Studies, 2021) Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award shortlist (2021) She teaches advanced seminars on Latin American Documentary, Cinema/Labor, and Filming the Police, mentoring students in critical media analysis while advancing her book project on police representation across televisual and digital platforms.












