Katrina Forrester

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] While completing her PhD at the University of Cambridge, she also 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] She is the co-editor of Nature, Action and the Future: Political Thought and the Environment with Sophie Smith.[6] Forrester held a Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress from 2019 to 2020[7] and was selected to deliver the Quentin Skinner Lecture at Cambridge in 2023.[8]

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 [9] the Society for US Intellectual History's Book Award,[10] the International Conference for the Study of Political Thought's David and Elaine Spitz Prize,[11] the Montreal Political Theory Manuscript Workshop Award, and was shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society's Gladstone Prize 2020.[12] and the European Consortium for Political Research's Political Theory Prize. She later co-edited a special section of Dissent with Moira Weigel.[13]

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]

• Katrina Forrester publications indexed by Google Scholar