Bio

Katrina Forrester is a political theorist and historian, and the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of Government and Committee on Social Studies at Harvard University. Her first multi-award-winning book, In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy (Princeton University Press, 2019) is a history of how political philosophy was transformed by postwar liberalism, John Rawls's A Theory of Justice, and the rise of liberal egalitarianism. She is now at work on a book provisionally titled In and Against: Struggles over the Capitalist State about struggles 'in and against the state' in the long 1970s in Britain, over social benefits, housing, and control of the local state, and the theories of the state and social movements these struggles generated. She is also beginning a new project about dependency - its injustices, problems, pleasures, and uses for politics and social theory. Her research has appeared in the American Political Science Review, Political Theory, Historical Journal, Modern Intellectual History, European Journal of Political Theory, Analyse & Kritik, South Atlantic Quarterly, Review of Politics, Climatic Change, and in a number of edited volumes, and she is the co-editor of Nature, Action and the Future: Political Thought and the Environment (Cambridge University Press, 2018). Her essays and criticism have appeared in the London Review of Books, The New Yorker, Harper's, The Guardian, The Nation, Dissent, n+1, The New Statesman, Jacobin, Boston Review, and elsewhere.