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Catherine Lu she/her

McGill University

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About

Catherine Lu is Professor of Political Science at McGill University, and Coordinator of the Research Group on Global Justice, and Director of the Yan P. Lin Centre for the Study of Freedom and Global Orders in the Ancient and Modern Worlds at McGill. She received her PhD from the University of Toronto in 2000. Her research interests intersect Political Theory and International Relations, focusing on critical and normative studies in international political theory on cosmopolitanism, global justice, human rights, intervention, colonial international order, structural injustice, and alienation, and reconciliation. She is the author of Justice and Reconciliation in World Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2017), which won the 2018 Robert L. Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder Best Book Award from the International History and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association, the 2018 Yale H. Ferguson Prize from the International Studies Association - Northeast Region, the 2019 Best book award of the International Ethics Section of ISA, and was co-winner of the 2018 Sussex International Theory Prize (UK). She is also the author of Just and Unjust Interventions in World Politics: Public and Private (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). In addition to the Bessel Award, she has received research fellowships from the School of Philosophy, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University (2013), the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2010-11), and the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University (2004-5).

Research Interests

International Relations, Political Theory, Social Justice, Critical Theory, War, Normative Theory, Transitional justice

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