Jenna Marshall is a Lecturer in International Studies at King’s College London. Before her appointment at King’s in 2022, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Universität Kassel in Germany (2019 -22) and a Sassoon Visiting Fellow in Black and South Asia History at the University of Oxford. Jenna completed her PhD at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), where she explored Pan-African social movements and political contestations of development agendas in the Anglophone Caribbean. Prior to her doctoral research, she completed a Masters in International Relations at QMUL (2009-10), and an undergraduate degree in International Studies at York University, Toronto, Canada (2006-09). She currently serves as the Research Area Lead under the London Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership (LISS DTP) for Global Order and Security. She also serves as co-convenor of the Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial working group of the British International Studies Association (BISA). Jenna has also worked in the field of journalism in the Caribbean and was awarded a Barbados national merit scholarship in 2005.

Upcoming events

Workshop: Counter/Mapping Research
Over three days, this course will trace and develop methodological-conceptual tools to help students unearth and make sense of the violence and complexities of doing research within the current global order. Deeply interdisciplinary, the course draws from methodological approaches across literature, history, sociology, geography, anthropology, and political science in order to equip students with new tools for counter/mapping histories, connections and relations shaped by empire; and the different struggles, experiments and modes of living that shape other stories, knowledges and approaches to the world.

Dates: TBA

Office hours

Friday: 11.00 - 13.00, Bush House NE wing, 5.12

Research interests

Empire and race, political economy of the global south, plantation economy, Fabian socialism, decolonial methodologies, the Caribbean, pedagogy, resistance and social movements

Teaching

• International Political Economy: Theories and Issues
• Decolonising Global Political Economy
• Introduction to International Economics
• Conceptualising the International (LISS DTP)

Latest publications

(Forthcoming) 'Knowledge Production', in Sarr-Fukuda, S. and Sean Jacobs (eds.). Decolonising International Affairs, Palgrave

(2025) Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men. Perspectives on Politics 23 (4), 1568-1569 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592725102430

(2024) Introduction to the Symposium on Race and Imperialism in International Relations. (co-edited with JK Gani). Read the introduction here.

(2022) Race and Imperialism in International Relations: Theory and Practice. International Affairs 100th Anniversary Special Issue. Vol. 98(1) (co-edited with JK Gani) https://academic.oup.com/ia/issue/98/1

(2022) The impact of colonialism on policy and knowledge production in International Relations. International Affairs. Vol. 98(1) 5 – 22. (co-authored with JK Gani) https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiab226

(2022) “Decolonization and its discontents, a review of Olufemi Taiwo's Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously”, The World Today, Aug 12 https://www.chathamhouse.org/publications/the-world-today/2022-08/review-decolonization-and-its-discontents

(2022) Swali, A. (Hosts). “Race and Imperialism in International Relations” (No. 99) [Audio podcast episode]. Undercurrents. https://www.chathamhouse.org/2022/02/undercurrents-race-and-imperialism-international-relations 11 Feb

(2020) Postcolonial paradoxes, ambiguities of self-determination and Adom Getachew’s Worldmaking After Empire. Millennium: Journal of International Studies. Vol. 48(3) 340-350. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829820939618

(2020) “Early Career Series Interview – Jenna Marshall”, E-International Relations, https://www.e-ir.info/2020/05/28/interview-jenna-marshall/ May 28