MI-KYOUNG (MITZI) LEE (PhD, Harvard, 1996) taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago (1996-2005) before taking up her current position at CU in 2005.

Professor Lee's interests lie in the area of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. She is the author of Epistemology after Protagoras: Responses to Relativism in Plato, Aristotle, and Democritus (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005), which recently won an honorable mention in the American Philosophical Association Book Prize 2007, for authors under 40. The book explores the responses to relativism found in Plato, Aristotle, and Democritus – ranging from Plato's sophisticated reformulation of relativism as a theory of knowledge, his refutation of relativism, and Aristotle's discussion of the skeptical consequences of Protagoras' ideas, to Democritus' incorporation of some modified Protagoras ideas in his theory of knowledge and perception.

Professor Lee continues to work on Plato's Theaetetus, most recently contributing the chapter on the Theaetetus to Gail Fine (ed.), Oxford Handbook on Plato (forthcoming). She is also working on a paper "What Epicurus learned from Plato's Theaetetus: Empiricism in Ancient Greek Philosophy," and a paper on the antecedents of ancient Greek skepticism, in the period between Democritus and Pyrrho. She is also planning to work more in the coming years on Aristotle, her first love.

When not working on and teaching ancient philosophy, Professor Lee loves spending time with her two young twin daughters Isabel and Julia and her husband Peter Hunt (professor of classics at CU), hiking and (occasionally) rock climbing, listening to classical music, and bicycling along the beautiful bike paths in Boulder.

For more information, see Professor Lee's personal website and CV.