Melissa Lane | |
|---|---|
| Occupation(s) | Professor, academic |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (BA) Cambridge University (M.Phil.,Ph.D.) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Political Theory |
| Sub-discipline | Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought, Plato, Aristotle, Climate Change, Environmental Political Theory, Modern Political Thought |
| Institutions | Princeton University |
Melissa Lane is an American academic and professor at Princeton University, where she holds the Class of 1943 professorship in the Department of Politics. She graduatedsumma cum laude fromHarvard University in 1989 with a degree in Social Studies and later earned aM.Phil andPh.D. in Philosophy fromCambridge University, where she also served as a lecturer. Lane joined Princeton's faculty in 2009. Throughout her career, she has received numerous honors, including aMarshall Scholarship,Truman Scholarship,Guggenheim Fellowship in 2012, and thePhi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize in 2015.
A political theorist, Lane specializes in ancient Greek political thought and its modern significance.[1]
Lane attended public schools in Los Angeles, California, serving as a student member of theCalifornia State Board of Education.[2]
She graduatedsumma cum laude fromHarvard University with a degree in Social Studies in 1989.[2] She briefly worked as an aide and speechwriter for PresidentOscar Arias Sanchez of Costa Rica after college who she met after he gave the Harvard graduation speech.[3] She then studied at Cambridge University as aMarshall,Truman, andPhi Beta Kappa scholar, graduating with aM.Phil in 1992 andPh.D. in Philosophy in 1995.[2][4]
She taught at Cambridge University in the Faculty of History as a lecturer after graduating. In 2009, she joinedPrinceton University as a professor; in 2014, she was endowed the Class of 1943 professorship in the Department of Politics. She is associated faculty in the Department of Classics and Philosophy.[2][4] She directed the Center for Human Values from 2016 to 2024 and was the first director for the Program in Values and Public Life.[5] She teaches in the history of political thought, specializing in ancient Greek thought and in normative political thought about environmental ethics and politics.[1][5]
She was awarded aGuggenheim Fellowship in 2012 and a 2015 Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize, among other awards.[2] She has been a fellow atKing's College, Cambridge, theRoyal Historical Society, and theRoyal Society of Arts.[5]
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