Catherine Lu
Professor
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Foundation (2018).
- Book awards:
- 2018 Robert L. Jervis and Paul W.Schroeder Best Book Award by the International History and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.
- Co-winner of the 2018 Sussex International Theory Prize, awarded for best piece of innovative theoretical research in International Relations by the Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT), University of Sussex
- 2018 Yale H. Ferguson Award by the International Studies Association-Northeast Region, for the book that most advances the vibrancy of international studies as a pluralist discipline.
- 2019 International Ethics Section Book award, of the International Studies Association, for best book published in the field of international ethics.
- Shortlisted for the 2008 and 2018 C.B. Macpherson Prize by the Canadian Political Science Association
PhD, University of Toronto
For more information, please see Catherine Lu's personal website.
International political theory; critical and normative theory; structural injustice; colonialism; alienation; reconciliation; global justice; humanitarianism, intervention and the use of force in world politics; cosmopolitanism and its critics; and literature and philosophy.
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“Progress, Decolonization, and Global Justice: A Tragic View,” International Affairs 99, 1 (January 2023): 141-159.
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“Reconciliation as Non-Alienation: The Politics of Being at Home in the World,” in Reconciliation and Repair: Mending Frayed Civic Bonds, Nomos LXIII (Yearbook of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy), eds. Melissa Schwartzberg and Eric Beerbohm (New York: New York University Press, May 2023), 7-41.
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“Acting in solidarity with the poor? Some conceptual and practical challenges’ in symposium on Monique Deveaux’s Poverty, Solidarity, and Poor-Led Social Movements, Ethics & Global Politics 16:2, 38-45.
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“Solidarity and Structural Injustice,” in Solidarity: Its Nature, Grounds, and Value – Andrea Sangiovanni in dialogue, edited by David Owen (Manchester University Press, Nov. 2023), 222-237.
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“Representing Humanity? The Role of Museums in Addressing Colonial Alienation,” in The Future of the Dutch Colonial Past, eds. Wayne Modest, Margriet Schavemaker, Pepijn Brandon, Karwan Fatah-Black and Imara Limon (University of Amsterdam Press, in-press, forthcoming 2023).
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“Responsibility, Structural Injustice, and Settler Colonialism,’ in What is Structural Injustice? eds. Jude Browne and Maeve McKeown (Oxford University Press, in-press, forthcoming 2023).
Justice and Reconciliation in World Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, November 2017, 334 pp. (Paperback released August 2018).
“Decolonizing Borders, Self-Determination, and Global Justice,” in Empire, Race and Global Justice, Duncan Bell ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), 251-272.
“World Government,” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2021 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2021/entries/world-government/>.
Just and Unjust Interventions in World Politics: Public and Private. Houndmills, Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. (Paperback with new Afterward, 2011, 233 pp.)