Jessica Ré Phillips

Jessica Ré Phillips is a Doctoral Researcher in the Department of Politics and International Studies and a recipient of the Department's 60th Anniversary Ph.D. Scholarship.

Before joining SOAS, she gained fifteen years of experience spanning the private sector, the creative economy, and the international development sector across Africa, Asia, and the Americas. She has led multiple multi-year, transnational, interdisciplinary research projects and received fellowships and funding from the Atlantic Fellows, Arts Council England, the Fulbright Commission, the Stanford University Martin Luther King Jr. Research Institute, the American India Foundation, the Office of the Stanford University Vice Provost for Education, the University of Oxford Department of International Development, and Princeton University. 

Ré's research builds on her practice as a multidisciplinary artist, with a record of collaborative work across China (the National Theatre of China, Ping Pong Arts, ShenYang Conservatory of Music, the US Embassy in Beijing, the U.S. Consulate in Guangzhou, the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies Art Faculty, and Moma Art Space) and Africa (the Ugandan National Theatre, Makerere University Department of Performing Arts, and the First Annual Nubian Cultural Festival in Khartoum).

Ré holds an MPhil from the University of Oxford, a BA with honours from Stanford University, and was a research exchange student at Peking University under the tutelage of Professor Li Anshan. She is a former artist-in-residence at the European Ceramic Workshop Centre (Netherlands), the Atlanta Central Library (USA), Nieuw en Meer (Netherlands), and World of Co (Bulgaria). Ré served on the editorial board of Millennium: Journal of International Studies for volumes 51-54 and has been a Graduate Teaching Assistant for the Introduction to Political Analysis module.

• Postcolonial Studies
• China-Africa Relations
• Political Economy
• Migration and Transnationalism
• Identity and Representation
• Visual International Relations
• Political Art
• Participatory and Arts-based Methodologies