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Dr Jenna Marshall, Lecturer in International Studies at King's College London

Dr Jenna Marshall

Lecturer in International Studies

Jenna joined King’s in 2022 as a Lecturer in International Studies. Specialising in the political economy of the global south and decolonial methodologies, Jenna’s work critically examines the intersections of empire, race, and resistance. Her academic journey has included influential positions such as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Universität Kassel and a Sassoon Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford. She champions interdisciplinary approaches and has a rich background in both academia and journalism in the Caribbean.

Research interests


Empire and race

Jenna’s work examines the ways in which imperialism and racism have been co-constitutive in the conditioning of material and ideological structures of contemporary global development and global governance.


Decolonial methodologies

Her work aims to challenge and dismantle Western-centric perspectives within knowledge production and academic discourse. It promotes methodologies that foreground perspectives and voices from the Global South, especially the Caribbean.


Plantation economy

A marginalised intellectual tradition emanating from the Caribbean that offered a situated accounting of global dynamics of capitalist accumulation, racialised dispossession and subjugation.


Political economy of the global south

An examination of the economic systems and political structures of countries in the Global South. Her work critically assesses how political actors including social movements navigate and contest global economic orders, development agendas, and neoliberal policies.

Career highlights and qualifications

  • Postdoctoral Fellow at Universität Kassel, Germany (2019-2022).
  • Holds a PhD from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), which focused on Pan-African social movements and political contestations of development agendas in the Anglophone Caribbean.
  • Sassoon Visiting Fellow in Black and South Asia History, University of Oxford (2019-2020)
  • Research Area Lead, London Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership (LISS DTP) (2024-present).
  • Co-convenor of the Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial working group, British International Studies Association (BISA) (2021-2024)
  • National merit scholarship recipient, Barbados, 2005.

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