# Katrina Forrester John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences On Leave Spring 2026 ![Katrina Forrester headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum9666/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/2025-05/forrester_headshot.jpg?itok=u_qQ4i4R) location\_on CGIS Knafel 437 email laptop\_windows [Personal Website](https://scholar.harvard.edu/katrinaforrester/home) 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. - ## Roles [Faculty and Teaching Staff](/roles/faculty) [Standing Committee](/roles/standing-committee)