Melissa Lane is the Class of 1943 Professor of Politics at Princeton University and director of the University Center for Human Values. She is also an associated faculty member in the Department of Classics and the Department of Philosophy. Lane is coconvenor of the Climate Futures Initiative, supported by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, the Princeton Environmental Institute, and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment; she is also a member of the Climate Change Working Group of the Social Sciences Research Council, as well as a member of the executive committee of Princeton’s Program in Classical Philosophy and a trustee of Princeton University Press, the editorial board of which she chaired in 2018–19. Lane was awarded a 2015 Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize at Princeton.