Jenna Marshall

Jenna Marshall is a Lecturer in International Studies at King’s College London, affiliated with the Department of European & International Studies. She holds a PhD from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and has held roles including Postdoctoral Fellow at Universität Kassel (2019-2022) and Sassoon Visiting Fellow in Black and South Asian History at the University of Oxford.

Her research focuses on empire and race, decolonial methodologies, and the political economy of the global south. Key interests include Pan-African social movements, Caribbean studies, and critiques of Eurocentric international relations theory.

She organizes interdisciplinary workshops such as 'Counter/Mapping Research' (June 2024) and 'Unsettling the Polycrisis' (June 2024), and co-convenes BISA’s Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial working group. Her work spans academic publications, policy engagement, and media contributions including reviews in The World Today and podcasts with Chatham House.

Awards include the Barbados National Merit Scholarship (2005) and grants from the British Federation of Women Graduates and the Royal Netherlands Institute. She is part of King’s Critical Global Capitalism Studies Collective, fostering collaborations across academia, media, and activism.