Updated: Wed, 10/02/2024 - 13:45

From Saturday, Oct. 5 through Monday, Oct. 7, the Downtown and Macdonald Campuses will be open only to McGill students, employees and essential visitors. Many classes will be held online. Remote work required where possible. See Campus Public Safety website for details.


Du samedi 5 octobre au lundi 7 octobre, le campus du centre-ville et le campus Macdonald ne seront accessibles qu’aux étudiants et aux membres du personnel de l’Université McGill, ainsi qu’aux visiteurs essentiels. De nombreux cours auront lieu en ligne. Le personnel devra travailler à distance, si possible. Voir le site Web de la Direction de la protection et de la prévention pour plus de détails.

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).

  •  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
Degree(s): 

PhD, University of Toronto

Research areas: 
International Relations
Political Theory
Biography: 

For more information, please see Catherine Lu's personal website.

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: 
Selected publications: 

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.

Just and Unjust Interventions in World Politics: Public and Private. Houndmills, Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. (Paperback with new Afterward, 2011, 233 pp.)

Group: 
Professor
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