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Katrina Forrester is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of Government and Committee on Social Studies at Harvard University. She is a political theorist and historian with expertise in postwar liberal political philosophy, Marxist feminism, and climate politics.
- PhD, University of Cambridge (2013)
- Research Fellow, St John's College, Cambridge (2012-14)
- Lecturer, Queen Mary University of London (2014-17)
- Kluge Fellow, Library of Congress (2019-20)
- Quentin Skinner Fellow, University of Cambridge (2023)
Her research focuses on:
- History of liberalism and the left in the postwar US and Britain
- Marxism, feminism, and psychoanalysis
- Theories of work, capitalism, and the capitalist state
- Climate politics and environmental political thought
- Anti-capitalist feminist strategies and dependency in politics
Forrester's work includes a book on postwar political philosophy and current projects on Marxist feminism, deindustrialization, and dependency. Her research has been published in leading journals such as American Political Science Review and European Journal of Political Theory.
Scientific awards include:
- Merle Curti Award
- Society for US Intellectual History Book Award
- David and Elaine Spitz Prize
- Okin-Young Award in Feminist Political Theory
She is affiliated with Harvard's Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Safra Center for Ethics; Inequality in America Initiative; and Harvard University Center for the Environment. Forrester also co-edited Nature, Action and the Future: Political Thought and the Environment (2018) and runs the Capitalism and its Critics workshop.
