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 focuses on the French Outre-mer (Overseas Territories), the legacies of colonialism and enslavement, as well as decolonial studies, care studies, and the medical humanities.
Her first 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 proposes a comparative study of contemporary artistic and literary representations of women’s ill/wellbeing in the context of the French Outre-Mer.
Jennifer Boum Make is also a member of the collective Kwazman Vwa, founded in the spring of 2021 and which offers series of online conversations (during the academic year) with contemporary Caribbean writers.
Academic Appointment(s)
- Primary
- Assistant Professor, College - Department of French and Francophone Studies