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Melissa Williams
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Melissa Williams is professor of political science at the University of Toronto, where she also served as founding director of the Centre for Ethics. A democratic theorist, her work has focused on questions of egalitarian inclusion and democratic representation under conditions of structural inequality. Her published works include Voice, Trust, and Memory: Marginalized Groups and the Failings of Liberal Representation (1998), numerous edited volumes, and articles in democratic theory and adjacent fields. Williams has also edited or co-edited several volumes in comparative political theory, most recently Deparochializing Political Theory (2020). Her current projects explore the possibilities of democratic collective agency beyond the state, as well as the intersections between democratic theory and Indigenous politics.