Melissa Lane is a
full professor
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of politics at
Princeton University
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, a position she has held since 2009.
Prior to this, she was a Senior Research
Fellow
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of
King's College, Cambridge
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and Associate Director of their Centre for History and Economics. She was a lecturer at Cambridge from 1994 to 2009.
Her expertise is in political theory.
Academic career
She graduated from
Harvard University
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'summa cum laude' with a degree in Social Studies. As a
Marshall
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Places
Australia
* Marshall, Victoria, a suburb of Geelong, Victoria
Canada
* Marshall, Saskatchewan
* The Marshall, a mountain in British Columbia
Liberia
* Marshall, Liberia
Marshall Islands
* Marshall Islands, an i ...
,
Truman, and
Phi Beta Kappa
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scholar, Lane went on to earn an M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from
Cambridge
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where she was a
Marshall Scholar
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.
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'' (
, 2014) .
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
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Origins
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References
External links
University of Cambridge – Core Faculty
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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
Year of birth missing (living people)
Women political scientists
Marshall Scholars