Philip Janzen

Philip Janzen is an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida, specializing in African and Caribbean cultural/intellectual histories. His research examines transatlantic colonial dynamics, diasporic identities, and the intersections of race, language, and power in colonial contexts. He earned his Ph.D. in African History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2018 and joined the University of Florida in 2019.

Janzen’s recent work includes his forthcoming book *An Unformed Map: Geographies of Belonging between Africa and the Caribbean* (Duke University Press, 2025), which explores Caribbean administrators in West and Central Africa and their reimagining of imperial geographies. His articles, published in *American Historical Review*, *Journal of African History*, and *The Americas*, analyze themes like Haitian influence in West Africa, racial hierarchies in colonial railways, and repatriation politics in Cuba.

His research has been supported by major grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Social Science Research Council, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Janzen teaches courses on African and world history, emphasizing transnational frameworks and interdisciplinary methodologies.