Katrina Forrester
Katrina Forrester | |
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Born | 1986 (age 35–36) UK |
Spouse(s) | 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. She is an assistant professor of government and social studies at Harvard University with research interests in twentieth-century social and political theory, particularly in the history of liberalism, US and British postwar intellectual history, theories of work and feminism. Her In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy won a number of academic awards. She has written on a variety of topics for the London Review of Books, The New Yorker, Dissent, N+1, Harper's and The Guardian, amongst others.
Early life and education[]
Forrester was born in 1986[1] to parents Lisa Appignanesi and John P. 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.[2] While completing her PhD at the University of Cambridge, she also held a research fellowship at St John's College, Cambridge, and received the Dan David Prize Scholarship.[3]
Career[]
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.[4] During the 2017–18 academic year, she co-edited Nature, Action and the Future: Political Thought and the Environment with Sophie Smith.[5] Forrester held a Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress from 2019 to 2020[6] and was selected to deliver the Quentin Skinner Lecture at Cambridge in 2021.[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,[8] the Society for US Intellectual History's Book Award,[9] and was shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society's Gladstone Prize 2020.[10] She later co-edited a special section of Dissent with Moira Weigel.[11]
Personal life[]
Forrester married Jamie Robert Martin in 2019.[2]
References[]
- ^ "Forrester, Katrina, 1986-". viaf.org. Retrieved May 7, 2021.
- ^ a b "Katrina Forrester, Jamie Martin". The New York Times. August 11, 2019. Archived from the original on August 11, 2019. Retrieved May 7, 2021.
- ^ "Dr Katrina Forrester receives Dan David Prize Scholarship". joh.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved May 7, 2021.
- ^ "Katrina Forrester". scholar.harvard.edu. Retrieved May 7, 2021.
- ^ "New Book by Faculty Associate Katrina Forrester". ethics.harvard.edu. January 25, 2018. Retrieved May 7, 2021.
- ^ Stratmoen, Michael (September 16, 2019). "September 2019 Arrivals at Kluge". blogs.loc.gov. Retrieved May 7, 2021.
- ^ "Quentin Skinner Lectureship". crassh.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved May 7, 2021.
- ^ "Prof. Katrina Forrester's book "In the Shadow of Justice: has been awarded the Merle Curti Award for Best Book in Intellectual History by the Organization of American Historians". gov.harvard.edu. April 20, 2020. Retrieved May 7, 2021.
- ^ Georgini, Sara (July 20, 2020). "S-USIH Book Prize Award Announcement". s-usih.org. Retrieved May 7, 2021.
- ^ "RHS GLADSTONE BOOK PRIZE – THE 2020 SHORTLIST". royalhistsoc.org. May 12, 2020. Retrieved May 7, 2021.
- ^ "Katrina Forrester co-edited a special section of Dissent magazine". gov.harvard.edu. December 3, 2020. Retrieved May 7, 2021.
External links[]
- Katrina Forrester publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Living people
- 1986 births
- 21st-century English women writers
- English political scientists
- British women historians
- 21st-century English historians
- Harvard University faculty
- Alumni of the University of Cambridge
- Women political scientists