Melissa Williams (academic)
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Melissa S. Williams (born 1960) is an American academic who specialises in
political theory. She was the founding director of the University of Toronto's Centre for Ethics. As of[ambiguous] 2018, she is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto.[1][2]
She gained an MESc from
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] which won a First Book Award in political theory or political philosophy from the American Political Science Association in 1999.[5] She has been editor of the journal NOMOS of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy.[6]
Selected publications
- Books
- Melissa S. Williams. Voice, Trust, and Memory: Marginalized Groups and the Failings of Liberal Representation (ISBN 9780691057385
- David Kahane, Daniel Weinstock, Dominique Leydet, Melissa Williams, eds. Deliberative Democracy in Practice (University of British Columbia Press; 2010) ISBN 0774859083
- Melissa Williams. Equality: A Critical Introduction (ISBN 978-0415242011
- Joseph Chan, Doh Chull Shin, Melissa S. Williams, eds. East Asian Perspectives on Political Legitimacy: Bridging the Empirical-Normative Divide (
- Essays and research papers
- Melissa S. Williams (1995). Justice toward groups: Political not juridical.
- Melissa S. Williams. "Citizenship as Identity, Citizenship as Shared Fate, and the Functions of Multicultural Education" in Kevin McDonough, Walter Feinberg (eds), Citizenship and Education in Liberal-Democratic Societies: Teaching for Cosmopolitan Values and Collective Identities (
References
- ^ a b "Melissa S. Williams". University of Toronto. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
- ^ a b "Melissa Williams". Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
- ^ Melissa S. Williams (1998). "Acknowledgements". Voice, Trust, and Memory: Marginalized Groups and the Failings of Liberal Representation. Princeton University Press.
- JSTOR 3072517.
- ^ "Organized Section 17: First Book Award". American Political Science Association. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
- ^ "Past Officers". American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
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