I am an International Relations DPhil candidate at Balliol College. My research focuses on the different tactics used by Lusophone Africa’s main national liberation movements in establishing a diplomatic offensive against Portuguese colonialism within the UN, and how this can change our perspective on late colonial politics. In particular, I look at how the MPLA (Angola), FRELIMO (Mozambique) and PAIGC (Guinea-Bissau) went beyond armed struggle to achieve their ultimate aim: national independence.

Kendall is a Marshall Scholar from the United States and a third-year DPhil in Politics candidate at the University of Oxford. Her doctoral research is in political theory, focusing on the relationship between climate-related land loss and liberalism. Specifically, she employs a critical methodology to challenge liberal theories of property and sovereignty through a "destabilised" land variable.