Patrick Scallen

HISTORIAN

Historian of the Salvadoran immigrant population in the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area. Drawing heavily upon oral and written sources, he situates Salvadoran narratives in the context of national debates on immigration reform, US Cold War foreign policy in Central America, domestic social movements, and the racial milieu of late-twentieth-century Washington, DC. Patrick Scallen’s oral histories are supported by Humanities DC and the DC Oral History Collaborative and have been digitally archived at the DC Public Library. A lifelong educator and District resident since 2004, he has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in migration studies, Latin American history, and U.S. Latinx history at Georgetown University, George Washington University, and Catholic University.