George Njung is a historian and assistant professor of African and global history at the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core and the Department of History at Baylor University in Texas, USA. His research explores global migration and refuge-seeking, as well as colonialism and colonial legacies, war and gender, and African colonial soldiers. He earned his Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan in 2016. His scholarship has been published in Africa Today, Journal of African History, The Canadian Journal of African Studies, First World War Studies, The Journal of Social History, and The American Historical Review. His forthcoming monograph, Violent Encounters: Gender, Colonialism, and the First World War in German Cameroon, 1884–1916, will be published by Ohio University Press. Njung lives and works in Texas.

As of June 2026