Faculty

Melissa S. Williams

Office Location

SS 3040

Phone Number

416-978-8220

Fax Number

416-978-5566

Email Address

melissa.williams@utoronto.ca

Area Group(s)

  • Political Theory

Education

  • MESc, Bryn Mawr College
  • A.M., Harvard University
  • Ph.D., Harvard University

Melissa S. Williams

Professor

Biography

Research interests include democratic theory, comparative political theory, the history of political thought, problems of democratic justice under conditions of structural inequality; current projects focuses on democratic collective agency beyond the state and collaborative work on Indigenous political innovations. Published work ranges from Voice, Trust, and Memory: Marginalized Groups and the Failings of Liberal Representation (Princeton 1998) to Deparochializing Political Theory (ed., Cambridge 2020), as well as numerous edited volumes and articles in journals such as Political Theory, Canadian Journal of Political Science, Review of Politics, and Polity.

Research Interests

  • Contemporary Democratic Theory