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 research interests in twentieth-century and contemporary social and political theory--particularly in 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.  Forrester's first multi-award winning book In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy (Princeton, 2019) is a history of contemporary liberal political philosophy in the US and Britain. She is currently working on a book about the politics of Marxist feminism and its theories of deindustrialization, which explores a range of anti-capitalist feminist strategies for seeking revolutionary reforms and transforming work and life, from political demands, sabotage, and squatting, to strikes and city councils. Her research has appeared in the American Political Science Review, South Atlantic Quarterly, Historical Journal, Modern Intellectual History, Climatic Change,  Analyse & Kritik,  European Journal of Political Theory, Review of Politics, and in a number of edited volumes. She is the co-editor of Nature, Action and the Future: Political Thought and the Environment (Cambridge, 2018), and has written about politics and the history of ideas for publications such as The New Yorker, London Review of Books, Harper's, n+1, The Guardian, The Nation, Dissent, Jacobin, and The New Statesman. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2013, held a research fellowship at St John's College, Cambridge in 2012-14 and a permanent lectureship at Queen Mary University of London until 2017. At Harvard, she is a faculty affiliate of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, the Edmund and Lily J Safra Center for Ethics, the Inequality in America Initiative, and the Harvard University Center for the Environment.

2023-24 Courses
Social Studies 10b: Introduction to Social Studies (Spring)
Government 1029: Feminist Political Thought (Spring)