Melissa Lane
Introduction '''Melissa Lane''' is a full professor of politics at Princeton University, a position she has held since 2009.Prior to this, she was a Senior Research Fellow of King's College, Cambridge 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 'summa cum laude' with a degree in Social Studies. As a Marshall, Truman, and Phi Beta Kappa scholar, Lane went on to earn an M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from Cambridge where she was a Marshall Scholar.
Publications ===Books===*'' Plato’s Progeny: How Socrates and Plato still captivate the modern mind.'' Duckworth, 2001. *''Method and Politics in Plato's Statesman.'' Cambridge University Press, 1998.Reviewed in *'' Greek and Roman Political Ideas'' (Pelican Books, 2014) .===Selected peer-reviewed journal articles===*"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*Gresham Professor of Rhetoric 2023
References
External links * University of Cambridge – Core Faculty