Melissa S. Williams

Professor
SS 3040
416-978-8220
melissa.williams@utoronto.ca

Campus

  • Downtown Toronto (St. George)

Fields of Study

  • Political Theory

Areas of Interest

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

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