Melissa Williams (academic)

rdf:langString Melissa Williams (academic)

rdf:langString Melissa S. Williams

rdf:langString Melissa S. Williams

rdf:langString Williams in 2017

rdf:langString Harvard University

rdf:langString Professor, academic, author

rdf:langString 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 2018, she is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. She gained an MESc from Bryn Mawr College, and AM and PhD degrees from Harvard University. Her doctoral advisers were Judith Shklar and Dennis F. Thompson. Her PhD thesis won the American Political Science Association's Leo Strauss Award. A major work is the book Voice, Trust, and Memory: Marginalized Groups and the Failings of Liberal Representation, published by Princeton University Press (1998), which won a First Book Award in political theory or political philosophy from the American Political Science Association in 1999. She has served as editor of the journal NOMOS of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy.