Jennifer A. Boittin

Jennifer A. Boittin is the Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor of Global History at UNC Chapel Hill. She holds a PhD from Yale University and previously taught at Penn State. Her research examines colonial spaces in West Africa, Southeast Asia, North Africa, and the French Caribbean through intersections of class, politics, and urban culture during the world wars and decolonization.

Her award-winning book Undesirable (2022) explores women defying French colonial policing. She has published extensively on Black feminism, anti-imperialism, and diaspora. Boittin is Past President of the Western Society of French History and editor of French Colonial History.