Katrina Forrester
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Lisa Appignanesi (mother)
Josh Appignanesi (brother)
Katrina Forrester | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1986 (age 38–39) UK |
| Spouse |
Jamie Robert Martin (m. 2019) |
| Relatives | John P. Forrester (father) Lisa Appignanesi (mother) Josh Appignanesi (brother) |
| Awards | Merle Curti Award |
| Academic background | |
| Education | MA, PhD, 2013, University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | Liberalism and realism in American political thought 1950-1990. (2013) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Harvard University Queen Mary University of London |
Katrina Max Forrester (born 1986) is a British political theorist and historian, and the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University.[1] Her research interests are in the history of liberalism and the left in the postwar US and Britain; Marxism, feminism, and psychoanalysis; climate politics; and theories of work and capitalism.
Forrester was born in 1986[2] to parents Lisa Appignanesi and John Forrester. Her mother is an author and her father was a professor in the department of history and philosophy of science at the University of Cambridge.[3]
Career
After completing her PhD at King's College, Cambridge, she held a research fellowship at St John's College, Cambridge.[4] Upon completing her fellowship, Forrester accepted a permanent lectureship at Queen Mary University of London until 2017 when she joined the faculty at Harvard University.[5] Forrester held a Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress from 2019 to 2020[6] and delivered the Quentin Skinner Lecture at Cambridge in 2023.[7]
Forrester's book In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy received the Organization of American Historians' Merle Curti Award for Best Book in Intellectual History by the Organization of American Historians[8] the Society for US Intellectual History's Book Award,[9] the International Conference for the Study of Political Thought's David and Elaine Spitz Prize,[10] the Montreal Political Theory Manuscript Workshop Award, and was shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society's Gladstone Prize 2020.[11]
Forrester has written on topics like pornography, sex work, surveillance, work, and capitalism for the London Review of Books, The New Yorker, Dissent, n+1, Jacobin, Harper's and The Guardian, amongst others. She is the co-editor of Nature, Action and the Future: Political Thought and the Environment with Sophie Smith,[12] and of a special section of Dissent with Moira Weigel.[13] Currently she is Consulting Editor of the Journal of the History of Ideas.
