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.
[1] 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.
[5] Forrester held a Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress from 2019 to 2020[6] and delivered the Quentin Skinner Lecture at Cambridge in 2023.
[7] 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[8] the Society for US Intellectual History's Book Award,[9] the International Conference for the Study of Political Thought's David and Elaine Spitz Prize,[10] the Montreal Political Theory Manuscript Workshop Award, and was shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society's Gladstone Prize 2020.
She is the co-editor of Nature, Action and the Future: Political Thought and the Environment with Sophie Smith,[12] and of a special section of Dissent with Moira Weigel.