Melissa Williams (political scientist)

Melissa S. Williams
Williams in 2017
Born1960
NationalityAmerican
EducationBryn Mawr College (MESc)
Harvard University (AM, PhD)
Occupation(s)Professor, academic, author

Melissa S. Williams (born 1960) is an American academic who specialises in democratic theory and comparative political theory. She was the founding director of the University of Toronto's Centre for Ethics. As of[ambiguous] 2018, she is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto.[1][2]

She gained an MESc from Bryn Mawr College and AM and PhD degrees from Harvard University.[1] Her doctoral advisers were Judith Shklar and Dennis F. Thompson.[3] Her PhD thesis won the American Political Science Association's Leo Strauss Award.[2]

A major work is the book Voice, Trust, and Memory: Marginalized Groups and the Failings of Liberal Representation, published by Princeton University Press (1998),[4] which won a First Book Award in political theory or political philosophy from the American Political Science Association in 1999.[5] She has been editor of the journal NOMOS of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy.[6]

Selected publications

Books
  • Melissa S. Williams. Voice, Trust, and Memory: Marginalized Groups and the Failings of Liberal Representation (Princeton University Press; 1998, 2000) ISBN 9780691057385
  • David Kahane, Daniel Weinstock, Dominique Leydet, Melissa Williams, eds. Deliberative Democracy in Practice (University of British Columbia Press; 2010) ISBN 0774859083
  • Melissa Williams. Equality: A Critical Introduction (Routledge; 2014) ISBN 978-0415242011
  • Joseph Chan, Doh Chull Shin, Melissa S. Williams, eds. East Asian Perspectives on Political Legitimacy: Bridging the Empirical-Normative Divide (Cambridge University Press; 2016) doi:10.1017/CBO9781316466896
Essays and research papers

References

  1. ^ a b "Melissa S. Williams". University of Toronto. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  2. ^ a b "Melissa Williams". Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  3. ^ Melissa S. Williams (1998). "Acknowledgements". Voice, Trust, and Memory: Marginalized Groups and the Failings of Liberal Representation. Princeton University Press.
  4. ^ J. Donald Moon (2001). "Reviewed Work: Voice, Trust, and Memory: Marginalized Groups and the Failings of Liberal Representation by Melissa S. Williams". Political Theory. 29: 300–303. JSTOR 3072517.
  5. ^ "Organized Section 17: First Book Award". American Political Science Association. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  6. ^ "Past Officers". American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. Retrieved 22 March 2023.