{{Short description|British political theorist and historian}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox academic | name =Katrina Forrester | image = | image_size = 230px | caption = | birth_date ={{birth year and age|1986}} | birth_place =UK | death_date = | education =MA, PhD, 2013, University of Cambridge | thesis_title =Liberalism and realism in American political thought 1950-1990. | thesis_year =2013 | spouse ={{married|Jamie Robert Martin|2019}} | relatives = John P. Forrester (father) <br /> Lisa Appignanesi (mother) <br /> Josh Appignanesi (brother) | awards = Merle Curti Award | website = | workplaces =Harvard University <br /> 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.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://scholar.harvard.edu/katrinaforrester/home |title=Katrina Forrester }}</ref> 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== Forrester was born in 1986<ref>{{cite web |title=Forrester, Katrina, 1986-. |url=http://viaf.org/viaf/97151302948048662492/#Forrester,_Katrina,_1986-.... |website=viaf.org |access-date=May 7, 2021}}</ref> 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.<ref name="marriage">{{cite news |title=Katrina Forrester, Jamie Martin |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/11/fashion/weddings/katrina-forrester-jamie-martin.html |access-date=May 7, 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=August 11, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190811041013/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/11/fashion/weddings/katrina-forrester-jamie-martin.html |archive-date=August 11, 2019}}</ref>
==Career== After completing her PhD at King's College, Cambridge, she held a research fellowship at St John's College, Cambridge.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.polthought.cam.ac.uk/seminar/archive/2013-2014 |title=2013-2014 |date=4 November 2014 }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |title=Katrina Forrester |url=https://scholar.harvard.edu/katrinaforrester/home |website=scholar.harvard.edu |access-date=May 7, 2021}}</ref> Forrester held a Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress from 2019 to 2020<ref>{{cite web |last1=Stratmoen |first1=Michael |title=September 2019 Arrivals at Kluge |url=https://blogs.loc.gov/kluge/2019/09/september-2019-arrivals-at-kluge/ |website=blogs.loc.gov |access-date=May 7, 2021 |date=September 16, 2019}}</ref> and delivered the Quentin Skinner Lecture at Cambridge in 2023.<ref>{{cite web |title=Quentin Skinner Lectureship |url=http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/balzan-skinner-fellowship |website=crassh.cam.ac.uk |access-date=May 7, 2021 |archive-date=12 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200412063332/http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/balzan-skinner-fellowship |url-status=dead }}</ref> She has recently taught classes at Harvard which include Feminist Political Thought, The Problem with Work, etc., however has not taught since the Fall of 2024.
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<ref>{{cite web |title=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 |url=https://www.gov.harvard.edu/2020/04/20/prof-katrina-forresters-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/ |website=gov.harvard.edu |access-date=March 26, 2023 |date=April 20, 2020}}</ref> the Society for US Intellectual History's Book Award,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Georgini |first1=Sara |title=S-USIH Book Prize Award Announcement |url=https://s-usih.org/2020/07/s-usih-book-prize-award-announcement-2/ |website=s-usih.org |access-date=May 7, 2021 |date=July 20, 2020}}</ref> the International Conference for the Study of Political Thought's David and Elaine Spitz Prize,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ethics.harvard.edu/news/katrina-forrester-wins-2021-spitz-prize |title=Katrina Forrester wins 2021 Spitz Prize |publisher=Harvard University |date=August 30, 2022 |access-date=March 26, 2023}}</ref> the Montreal Political Theory Manuscript Workshop Award, and was shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society's Gladstone Prize 2020.<ref>{{cite web |title=RHS GLADSTONE BOOK PRIZE – THE 2020 SHORTLIST |url=https://blog.royalhistsoc.org/2020/05/12/rhs-gladstone-book-prize-2020-the-shortlist/ |website=royalhistsoc.org |access-date=May 7, 2021 |date=May 12, 2020}}</ref>
Forrester has written on topics like feminism, socialism, 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,<ref>{{cite web |title=New Book by Faculty Associate Katrina Forrester |url=https://ethics.harvard.edu/news/new-book-faculty-associate-katrina-forrester |website=ethics.harvard.edu |access-date=May 7, 2021 |date=January 25, 2018}}</ref> and of a special section of ''Dissent'' with Moira Weigel.<ref>{{cite web |title=Katrina Forrester co-edited a special section of Dissent magazine |url=https://gov.harvard.edu/news/katrina-forrester-co-edited-special-section-dissent-magazine |website=gov.harvard.edu |access-date=May 7, 2021 |date=December 3, 2020 }}{{Dead link|date=September 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Currently she is Consulting Editor of the Journal of the History of Ideas.
==Personal life== Forrester married Jamie Martin in 2019.<ref name="marriage"/> 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.<ref>{{cite periodical |url=https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v35/n01/katrina-forrester/i-want-you-to-know-i-know-who-you-are |title=I want you to know I know who you are |magazine=London Review of Books |date=January 3, 2013 |volume=35 |issue=1 |access-date=March 26, 2023 |last1=Forrester |first1=Katrina }}</ref>
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