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 graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1989 with a degree in Social Studies and later earned a M.Phil and Ph.D. in Philosophy from Cambridge University, where she also served as a lecturer. Lane joined Princeton's faculty in 2009. Throughout her career, she has received numerous honors, including a Marshall Scholarship, Truman Scholarship, Guggenheim Fellowship in 2012, and the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize in 2015.
A political theorist, Lane specializes in ancient Greek political thought and its modern significance.[1]