Katrina Forrester

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Katrina Forrester
Born1986 (age 35–36)
UK
Spouse(s)
Jamie Robert Martin
(m. 2019)
RelativesJohn P. Forrester (father)
Lisa Appignanesi (mother)
Josh Appignanesi (brother)
AwardsMerle Curti Award
Academic background
EducationMA, PhD, 2013, University of Cambridge
ThesisLiberalism and realism in American political thought 1950-1990. (2013)
Academic work
InstitutionsHarvard 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[]

  1. ^ "Forrester, Katrina, 1986-". viaf.org. Retrieved May 7, 2021.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "Dr Katrina Forrester receives Dan David Prize Scholarship". joh.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved May 7, 2021.
  4. ^ "Katrina Forrester". scholar.harvard.edu. Retrieved May 7, 2021.
  5. ^ "New Book by Faculty Associate Katrina Forrester". ethics.harvard.edu. January 25, 2018. Retrieved May 7, 2021.
  6. ^ Stratmoen, Michael (September 16, 2019). "September 2019 Arrivals at Kluge". blogs.loc.gov. Retrieved May 7, 2021.
  7. ^ "Quentin Skinner Lectureship". crassh.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved May 7, 2021.
  8. ^ "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.
  9. ^ Georgini, Sara (July 20, 2020). "S-USIH Book Prize Award Announcement". s-usih.org. Retrieved May 7, 2021.
  10. ^ "RHS GLADSTONE BOOK PRIZE – THE 2020 SHORTLIST". royalhistsoc.org. May 12, 2020. Retrieved May 7, 2021.
  11. ^ "Katrina Forrester co-edited a special section of Dissent magazine". gov.harvard.edu. December 3, 2020. Retrieved May 7, 2021.

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