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Catherine Lu

Academic title(s): 

Professor

Catherine Lu
Contact Information
Address: 

855 Sherbrooke St. W.
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 2T7

Email address: 
catherine.lu [at] mcgill.ca
Office: 
Ferrier 466
Awards, honours, and fellowships: 

Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Foundation (2018).

  • 聽Book awards:
    • by the International History and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.
    • Co-winner of the , awarded for best piece of innovative theoretical research in International Relations by the Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT), University of Sussex
    • 2018 by the International Studies Association-Northeast Region, for the book that most advances the vibrancy of international studies as a pluralist discipline.
    • 2019 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
Degree(s): 

PhD, University of Toronto

Research areas: 
International Relations
Political Theory
Biography: 

For more information, please see .

Areas of interest: 

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.

Current research: 
  • 鈥,鈥 International Affairs 99, 1 (January 2023): 141-159.

  • 鈥溾 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.

  • 鈥溾 in symposium on Monique Deveaux鈥檚 Poverty, Solidarity, and Poor-Led Social Movements, Ethics & Global Politics 16:2, 38-45.

  • 鈥淪olidarity and Structural Injustice,鈥 in , edited by David Owen (Manchester University Press, Nov. 2023), 222-237.

  • 鈥淩epresenting Humanity? The Role of Museums in Addressing Colonial Alienation,鈥 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).

  • 鈥淩esponsibility, Structural Injustice, and Settler Colonialism,鈥 in What is Structural Injustice? eds. Jude Browne and Maeve McKeown (Oxford University Press, in-press, forthcoming 2023).

Selected publications: 

. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, November 2017, 334 pp. (Paperback released August 2018).

鈥淒ecolonizing Borders, Self-Determination, and Global Justice,鈥 in , Duncan Bell ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), 251-272.

鈥,鈥 The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2021 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), .

. Houndmills, Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. (Paperback with new Afterward, 2011, 233 pp.)

Group: 
Professor
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