Melissa S. Williams

Melissa S. Williams

First Name: 
Melissa S.
Last Name: 
Williams
Title: 
Professor
Phone : 
416-978-8220
Office Location : 
SS 3040
Biography : 

Melissa's current project 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.

Education: 
MESc, Bryn Mawr College
AM, Harvard University
PhD, Harvard University

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Areas of Interest: 
  • Democratic Theory
  • Comparative Political Theory
  • The History of Political Thought
  • Problems of Democratic Justice Under Conditions of Structural Inequality

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Meta Description: 
Melissa S. Williams is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto.