Jennifer Boum Make is primarily a literary and visual studies scholar and Assistant Professor in the Department of French & Francophone Studies at Georgetown University. She is also affiliated with the Medical Humanities Initiative and the African Studies Program at Georgetown. She received her Ph.D. in 2019 from the University of Pittsburgh.
Her research is focused on the French Caribbean, the legacy of colonialism and the French Atlantic slave trade, and care studies. Her forthcoming monograph, Decolonial Care: Reimagining Caregiving in the French Caribbean (Rutgers University Press, 2025), examines the relationship between colonial legacies and caregiving dynamics in the French Caribbean, offering a decolonial perspective on care practices.
In her second book project, Jennifer Boum Make explores the systemic nature of chemical colonialism under French governance in its Overseas Territories, exposing the racial, gender, and geographic asymmetries that underpin these practices of neglect and (un)caring. Her analysis centers on literary and visual representations of women's health and wellbeing in the French Caribbean and French Polynesia.
Jennifer Boum Make is also an active member of the collective Kwazman Vwa, founded in the spring of 2021 and which offers series of monthly online conversations (during the academic year) with contemporary Caribbean writers.
Academic Appointment(s)
- Primary
- Assistant Professor, College - Department of French and Francophone Studies