Curriculum Vitae
Rebecca Buxton
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Unestablished Lecturer in Political Theory, Department of Politics
University of Cambridge (Sept 2021 - August 2024)
EDUCATION
DPhil, Refugee Studies Centre, St John’s College, Oxford , 2018 - present
Thesis: Politics in Exile: Refugees, Membership, and Political Rights
Supported by the Economic and Social Research Council and St John’s College
MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, Lincoln College, Oxford, 2016 - 2017
With distinction. Thesis: The Lie of the Land: Culture, Territory and Reparations for Climate Refugees
Supported by the Kenneth Sewards Shaw Scholarship
BA in Philosophy, King’s College London, 2013 - 2016
First Class. Thesis: Priority, Vulnerability, and Asylum
RESEARCH AREAS
Areas of Specialization: social and political philosophy, political theory, refugee and forced migration studies
Areas of Competence: history of political thought, feminist philosophy, anthropology of migration, women in the history of philosophy
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
Balliol College Incubator Fund 2019-2020 - £1,500
Royal Institute of Philosophy Annual Essay Prize 2018 - £2,500
Economic and Social Research Council DTP Scholarship 2018-2021 - full tuition and college fees
Lamb and Flag Scholarship (St John’s College) 2018-2021 - full maintenance grant
MSc Refugee and Forced Migration Studies Best Thesis Prize 2017 - £100
Lincoln College Distinction Prize 2017 - £100
Kenneth Sewards Shaw Scholarship (Lincoln College) 2016-2017 - £1,500
BOOKS
The Philosopher Queens, Edited by Rebecca Buxton & Lisa Whiting, Unbound, September 2020
BOOK CHAPTERS
‘Hannah Arendt’ in The Philosopher Queens, Edited by Rebecca Buxton & Lisa Whiting, Unbound, September 17th 2020
‘We Must Listen to Climate Refugees Now’, Climate Change and Population Displacement, Greenhaven Publishing, June 2020 (co-authored with Theo Kwek)
BOOK REVIEWS
‘Migrants and Militants by Alain Badiou’, 2020, Journal of Refugee Studies, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/feaa050
‘The Ethics and Practise of Refugee Repatriation by Mollie Gerver’, LSE Review of Books, January 2020
POPULAR PUBLICATIONS
‘Women and Public Philosophy’, The View, forthcoming September 2020
‘Who is a refugee?’, American Philosophy Association, 8th April 2020
‘What Love Island teaches us about ‘himpathy’’’ The Guardian, July 13th 2019 (co-authored)
‘What do we owe those displaced by climate change?’ Rethinking Refuge, June 1st 2019
‘Reply to Refugia: Nothing Utopian about an Archipelago of Exclusion’, Refugees Deeply, November 8th 2017, (co-authored)
‘Between Home and a Hard Place: Paying Refugees to Return’, The Diplomat, October 27th 2017, (co-authored)
‘All Refugees Want to Go Home, Right?’ Open Democracy, October 18th 2017 (co-authored)
‘In It To Win It: Is Prize-giving bad for Philosophy?’ Finalist of Oxford Practical Ethics Prize, March 2017
‘Losing Ground: Listening to the Voices of Climate Refugees’, Open Migration, Feb 8th, 2017 (co-authored)
‘Refugees Are Not “Political Resources”: A reply to Alexander Betts’, IRIN News, Jan 27th, 2017 (republished in the International Refugee Law Initiative) (co-authored)
‘The Lost Voices of Yarl’s Wood’, Dialogue, Women’s History Month Edition, May 10th, 2015
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
‘Justice in Waiting: The harms and wrongs of temporary refugee protection’, Normative Theory and Immigration Workshop, (May 2020)
‘The right to family refugee reunion: chosen families and queering refugee studies’, University of Leeds, LGBTQ Asylum and Political Theory Conference (cancelled due to COVID-19)
‘Is temporary protection harmful?’, Nuffield Political Theory Seminar (cancelled due to COVID-19)
‘Differentiating Refugees: A reply to David Owen’, Philosophy and Borders Symposium, Nuffield College, Oxford (cancelled due to COVID-19) - co-authored with Dr. Jamie Draper
‘Is temporary refugee protection harmful?’, Oxford Political Theory Work in Progress Group, Nuffield College (December 2019)
‘Do states have a duty to naturalise refugees?’ MANCEPT, Immigration and Democracy Panel (September 2019)
‘Refugeehood and Citizenship’, LSE Graduate Conference in Political Theory, London (March 2019)
‘The Lie of the Land: Territory, Culture, and Reparations for Climate Refugees’, Conversazione, University of Oxford, Lincoln College (May 2017)
Selected Talks for The Philosopher Queens
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University of Bristol (May 2019)
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City of London School for Girls (January 2019)
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Kendrick School for Girls, Reading (November 2018)
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Co-founder of Philosophy and Borders working group at the University of Oxford
Co-organiser of the Department of International Development DPhil Seminar
Women’s Officer at St John’s College MCR
TEACHING
Stipendiary Lecturer in Politics, St Annes College, Oxford, October 2020 - present
Theory of Politics
History of Political Thought: Plato to Rousseau
History of Political Thought: Bentham to Weber
Advanced Topics in Theories of Justice
Tutor, Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford University, January 2020 - present
Movement and Morality
Tutor, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University, October 2019 - present
Foundations in Political Philosophy
Tutor, Stanford House - Stanford University, May 2019 - present
Migration and Refugees in a Global Context
Indigenous Rights and Environmental Justice
Politics Tutor, Oxford Royale (July 2019 -August 2019)
Introduction to Politics and International Relations
RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE
Community Fellow, Oxford - Refugees Deeply (April 2018 - October 2018)
• Editing op-ed submissions on refugee and forced displacement issues
• Interviewing, transcribing, and editing ‘When Refugees Lead’ and ‘Photographing Refugees’ series
Parliamentary Researcher, London - House of Commons (July 2017 - September 2018)
• Researching issues including modern slavery, human trafficking, education and The Commonwealth, for Parliamentary debates and reports.
• Writing and editing book chapters and articles on modern slavery and human trafficking.
• Organising Parliamentary diary for a Labour MP, including the Department of Work and Pensions Select Committee Hearings and Liaison Committee.
Research Assistant, Oxford - Refugee Studies Centre (March 2017- June 2017)
• Compiling and summarizing policy documents on deportation and denationalisation for Professor Gibney.
• Editing and drafting upcoming articles and book chapters for Professor Gibney.
Research Assistant, Oxford - International Migration Institute (April 2017- August 2017)
• Assisting Dr Dominique Jolivet and her team at the Welfare Migration Project.
• Developing skills in Nvivo software package to aid qualitative data interpretation.
Research Intern, London - UCLA Santa Barbara and The University of Oxford (July- August 2016)
• Assisted Professor Lasala-Blanco in gathering data on the rise of right-wing populism in Europe.
• Undertook surveys and semi-structured interviews with members of UKIP and Britain First.