Jennifer Marie Boum Make

Jennifer Marie Boum Make serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of French and Francophone Studies at Georgetown University, with additional affiliations to the Medical Humanities Initiative and African Studies Program.

Her academic credentials include:

• D.Phil from University of Pittsburgh (2019)
• M.A. from University of Pittsburgh
• M.A. from University Paris Nanterre
• B.A. with Honors from University Paris Nanterre

Her research pioneers decolonial approaches to caregiving in the French Caribbean, critically examining colonial legacies through literary and visual analysis. The forthcoming monograph Decolonial Care: Reimagining Caregiving in the French Caribbean (Rutgers University Press, 2025) establishes foundational frameworks for understanding racialized care dynamics, while her second project investigates systemic chemical colonialism in French Overseas Territories, exposing gendered and geographic asymmetries in women's health representations across the French Caribbean and Polynesia.

She co-founded the Kwazman Vwa collective in 2021, which organizes monthly academic-year dialogues featuring contemporary Caribbean writers to advance regional literary discourse.