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Katrina Forrester

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Katrina Forrester
Born1986 (age 37–38)
UK
Spouse
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

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.

Early life and education

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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

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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.

Personal life

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Forrester married Jamie Martin in 2019.[3] In the 2000s, she was an activist with the direct action group Plane Stupid and with the Camp for Climate Action, later writing about her experiences with police and corporate spying on climate activists for the London Review of Books.[14]

During the 2023 Israeli War on Gaza, Forrester defended the anti-Zionist Jewish left.[15] Forrester's parents are both Jewish and she grew up in a secular Jewish household critical of Israel.[16][17][circular reference]

Quotes

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  • ...After all, radicals in the United States are drawing more inspiration from Marxism than from liberalism.[18]

References

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  1. ^ "Katrina Forrester".
  2. ^ "Forrester, Katrina, 1986-". viaf.org. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Katrina Forrester, Jamie Martin". The New York Times. 11 August 2019. Archived from the original on 11 August 2019. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
  4. ^ "2013-2014". 4 November 2014.
  5. ^ "Katrina Forrester". scholar.harvard.edu. 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 26 March 2023.
  9. ^ Georgini, Sara (20 July 2020). "S-USIH Book Prize Award Announcement". s-usih.org. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
  10. ^ "Katrina Forrester wins 2021 Spitz Prize". Harvard University. 30 August 2022. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
  11. ^ "RHS GLADSTONE BOOK PRIZE – THE 2020 SHORTLIST". royalhistsoc.org. 12 May 2020. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
  12. ^ "New Book by Faculty Associate Katrina Forrester". ethics.harvard.edu. 25 January 2018. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
  13. ^ "Katrina Forrester co-edited a special section of Dissent magazine". gov.harvard.edu. 3 December 2020. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
  14. ^ Forrester, Katrina (3 January 2013). "I want you to know I know who you are". London Review of Books. Vol. 35, no. 1. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
  15. ^ Forrester, Katrina (29 November 2023). "We must refuse the currency of fear". The New Statesman. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  16. ^ Warner, Marina (3 December 2020). "John Forrester Obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
  17. ^ "Independent Jewish Voices". 10 December 2023.
  18. ^ https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/katrina-forrester-future-political-philosophy/
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