Melissa Williams is author of 'Linking Fates Together: Democractic Imaginaries and Global Public Space'

Melissa Williams (BA Bryn Mawr College; MA, PhDHarvardUniversity) is Professor of Political Science and founding Director of the Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto. She is author of Voice, Trust, and Memory: Marginalized Groups and the Failings of Liberal Representation (Princeton, 1998), and co-editor (with Patrick Hanafin) of Identity, Rights, and Constitutional Transformation (Ashgate, 1999). She serves as Editor of NOMOS, the Yearbook of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, published by New York University Press, and has coedited Political Exclusion and Domination (with Stephen Macedo), Humanitarian Intervention  (with Terry Nardin), Toleration and Its Limits (with Jeremy Waldron), and Moral Universalism and Pluralism (with Henry Richardson). Williams is author of articles on issues in contemporary democratic theory and the history of political thought, ranging across the themes of citizenship, deliberative democracy, toleration, education, Aboriginal rights, feminist theory, representation, multiculturalism and affirmative action.   Williams’s interest in Building Global Democracy arises out of work on the concept of global citizenship, a concern to build stronger linkages between activists, practitioners, and academics, and the commitment of the Centre for Ethics to foster ethical discourse across social, religious and cultural differences.

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