Catherine Lu
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Catherine Lu is Associate Professor of Political Science at McGill University, and Coordinator of the Research Group on Global Justice of the Yan P. Lin Centre for the Study of Freedom and Global Orders in the Ancient and Modern Worlds. She served as Associate Director of the Institute for the Study of International Development from 2016-18. Her research and teaching interests intersect political theory and international relations, focusing on critical and normative studies of humanitarianism and intervention in world politics; theories and practices of justice and reconciliation; colonialism and structural injustice; and cosmopolitanism, global justice, and the world state. She is the author of Justice and Reconciliation in World Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2017), which won the 2018 Jervis-Schroeder Best Book Award in International History and Politics, awarded by that Section of the American Political Science Association, as well as the 2018 Sussex International Theory Prize, awarded by the Centre for Advanced International Theory at the University of Sussex; and Just and Unjust Interventions in World Politics: Public and Private (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). 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). Lu serves on the editorial boards of The Journal of Political Philosophy, The Journal of International Political Theory, and Politics, Groups, and Identities. She is also a Co-Convenor of the Standing Group on International Political Theory of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR).