Jessica Ré Phillips

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

Prior to coming to SOAS, she spent 15 years working in the private sector, the creative economy, and the international development sector across Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Ré has experience conducting multi-year, transnational interdisciplinary research projects and has been previously awarded fellowships and funding from the Fulbright Commission, the American India Foundation, the Office of the Stanford University Vice Provost for Education, and the University of Oxford Department of International Development.

Ré’s research builds on her work as an experienced multidisciplinary artist with an established record of making collaborative art 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), Africa (the Ugandan National Theatre, Makerere University Department of Performing Arts, and the First Annual Nubian Cultural Festival in Khartoum), and beyond.

Ré holds an MPhil in Development Studies from the University of Oxford and a BA in African Studies and Modern Languages (Spanish, Mandarin) from Stanford University. She is a former artist-in-residence at the European Ceramic Workshop Centre (Netherlands), the Atlanta Central Library (USA), Nieuw en Meer (Netherlands), and the World of Co (Bulgaria). Ré currently serves on the editorial board of Millennium: Journal of International Studies, V.52.

Visual International Relations, China-Africa Relations, Migration & Transnationalism, Art + Politics, Representation, Arts-based Methods; Practice-based Methods