Melissa Lane
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.
Publications[]
Books[]
- Plato’s Progeny: How Socrates and Plato still captivate the modern mind. Duckworth, 2001. Reviewed in
- Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews,
- Heythrop Journal,
- Mind,
- Times Literary Supplement,
- Greece and Rome,
- Philosophy in Review,
- Phronesis,
- Prudentia,
- Review of Politics,
- Method and Politics in Plato's Statesman. Cambridge University Press, 1998. Reviewed in
- Polis
- Athenaeum
- Archives de Philosophie,
- Classical Review,
- Classical World
- Ethicsw
- Greece and Rome
- Heythrop Journal
- Journal of the History of Philosophy,
- Review of Metaphysics
- Phronesis.
- Greek and Roman Political Ideas (Pelican Books, 2014) ISBN 978-0141976150.
Peer-reviewed journal articles[]
(selected)
- "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[]
- Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
References[]
- ^ "Professor Melissa Lane". 2013. Archived from the original on 13 August 2014. Retrieved 12 May 2014.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Curriculum Vitae: Melissa Lane, July 2013, retrieved 12 May 2014[permanent dead link]
- ^ Cooper, Frederick (2018). Citizenship, Inequality, and Difference: Historical Perspectives. Princeton University Press. p. 143. ISBN 978-0-691-17184-5.
External links[]
Categories:
- Princeton University faculty
- Living people
- American scholars of ancient Greek philosophy
- Historians of political thought
- Fellows of the Royal Historical Society
- Harvard University alumni
- Alumni of the University of Cambridge
- Women political scientists