Katrina Forrester

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.

Katrina Forrester
Born1986 (age 35–36)
UK
Spouse(s)
Jamie Robert Martin
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(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

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