Melissa Williams

Melissa S. Williams (born 1960) is a North 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.[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][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] which won a First Book Award in political theory or political philosophy from the American Political Science Association in 1999.[12] She has served as editor of the journal NOMOS of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy.[13][14]

Selected publications

Books
  • 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
  • Melissa Williams. Equality: A Critical Introduction (Routledge; 2014) ISBN 978-0415242011
  • David Kahane, Daniel Weinstock, Dominique Leydet, Melissa Williams, eds. Deliberative Democracy in Practice (University of British Columbia Press; 2010) ISBN 0774859083
  • Melissa S. Williams. Voice, Trust, and Memory: Marginalized Groups and the Failings of Liberal Representation (Princeton University Press; 1998, 2000) ISBN 9780691057385
Essays and research papers

References

  1. 1 2 Melissa S. Williams, University of Toronto, retrieved 29 April 2018
  2. 1 2 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. ↑ Charles R. Beitz (1999), "Reviewed Work: Voice, Trust, and Memory: Marginalized Groups and the Failings of Liberal Representation by Melissa S. Williams", The American Political Science Review, 93: 441–42, doi:10.2307/2585417, JSTOR 2585417
  6. ↑ Dominique Leydet (1999), "Reviewed Work: Voice, Trust, and Memory: Marginalized Groups and the Failings of Liberal Representation by Melissa S. Williams", Canadian Journal of Political Science, 32: 616–17, JSTOR 3232764
  7. ↑ Katherine Tate (2000), "Reviewed Work: Voice, Trust, and Memory: Marginalized Groups and the Failings of Liberal Representation by Melissa S. Williams", The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 571: 207–8, JSTOR 1049150
  8. ↑ Pamela Paxton (2001), "Reviewed Work: Voice, Trust, and Memory: Marginalized Groups and the Failings of Liberal Representation by Melissa S. Williams", Contemporary Sociology, 30: 389–90, doi:10.2307/3089779, JSTOR 3089779
  9. ↑ Patricia A. Hurley (1999), "Reviewed Work: Voice, Trust, and Memory: Marginalized Groups and the Failings of Liberal Representation by Melissa S. Williams", The Journal of Politics, 61: 1201–3, doi:10.2307/2647574, JSTOR 2647574
  10. ↑ John Brigham (1999), "Reviewed Works: Heretics in the Temple: Americans Who Reject the Nation's Legal Faith by David Ray Papke; Voice, Trust, and Memory: Marginalized Groups and the Failings of Liberal Representation by Melissa S. Williams", Journal of Law and Society, 26: 391–97, JSTOR 1410752
  11. ↑ Nathan Glazer (18 June 1999), "Under the rainbow", Times Literary Supplement: 7
  12. ↑ Organized Section 17: First Book Award, American Political Science Association, retrieved 9 May 2018
  13. ↑ About the ASPLP, American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, retrieved 29 April 2018
  14. ↑ NOMOS – American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, NYU Press, retrieved 29 April 2018
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