Office Location
SS 3040
Phone Number
416-978-8220
Fax Number
416-978-5566
Email Address
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, and problems of democratic justice under conditions of structural inequality; current project focuses on democratic collective agency beyond the state. 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