Melissa Lane is a full professor of politics at Princeton University,[1] a position she has held since 2009.[2] Prior to this, she was a Senior Research Fellow[2] of King's College, Cambridge and Associate Director of their Centre for History and Economics. She was a lecturer at Cambridge from 1994 to 2009.[2] Her expertise is in political theory.[3]

Academic career

She graduated from Harvard University 'summa cum laude' with a degree in Social Studies. As a Marshall, Truman, and Phi Beta Kappa scholar, Lane went on to earn an M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from Cambridge where she was a Marshall Scholar.[4]

Publications

Books

  • Plato’s Progeny: How Socrates and Plato still captivate the modern mind. Duckworth, 2001.
  • Method and Politics in Plato's Statesman. Cambridge University Press, 1998. Reviewed in
  • Greek and Roman Political Ideas (Pelican Books, 2014) ISBN 978-0141976150.

Selected peer-reviewed journal articles

  • "The evolution of eironeia in classical Greek texts: why Socratic eironeia is not Socratic irony", Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 31 (2006) 49–83.
  • "Argument and Agreement in Plato’s Crito", History of Political Thought 19:3 (1998) 313–330.
  • "The utopianism of Hamilton’s state of needs: on rights, deliberation, and the nature of politics", South African Journal of Philosophy 25 (2006) 207–213.
  • "Why History of Ideas At All?", History of European Ideas 28:1–2 (2002) 33–41.
  • "States of Nature, Epistemic and Political", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (1998–1999) 1–24.
  • "Plato, Popper, Strauss, and Utopianism: Open Secrets?", History of Philosophy Quarterly 16:2 (April 1999) 119-42

Honours

References

  1. ↑ "Professor Melissa Lane". 2013. Archived from the original on 13 August 2014. Retrieved 12 May 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 Curriculum Vitae: Melissa Lane, July 2013, retrieved 12 May 2014
  3. ↑ Cooper, Frederick (2018). Citizenship, Inequality, and Difference: Historical Perspectives. Princeton University Press. p. 143. ISBN 978-0-691-17184-5.
  4. ↑ "Marshall Scholar Alumni by Year from Association of Marshall Scholars". Association of Marshall Scholars. Retrieved 2022-05-23.
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