Nancy Fraser is Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of philosophy and politics at the New School for Social Research and a member of the Editorial Committee of New Left Review. Her newest book is Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care and the Planet–and what we can do about it (Verso, 2022). Other recent books include Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto, co-authored with Cinzia Arruzza and Tithi Bhattacharya (Verso, 2019); The Old is Dying (Verso, 2019); and Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory, co-authored with Rahel Jaeggi (Polity Press, 2018). Her current book-in-progress is entitled “Three Faces of Capitalist Labor: Uncovering the Hidden Ties between Gender, Race, and Class.”
Fraser’s work has been translated into more than twenty languages and was cited three times by the Justices of the Brazilian Supreme Court–in opinions upholding marriage equality, affirmative action, and Afro-descendant collective land rights. A Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor, a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a past President of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, she is the recipient of six honorary degrees, the Alfred Schutz Prize for Social Philosophy, the Nessim Habif World Prize, the Nonino Prize “Master of our Time,” and the Havens/Wright Center Award for Lifetime Contribution to Critical Scholarship. She has delivered the Tanner Lectures, the Spinoza Lectures, the Ralph Miliband Lecture, the Mary Wollstonecraft Lecture, the Storrs Lectures, the Leibniz Lecture, the Humanitas Lectures in Women’s Rights, the Karl Polanyi Lectures, the Nicos Poulantzas Memorial Lecture, the Marc Bloch Lecture, and the Walter Benjamin Lectures.