Adriane Rini

Adriane Allison Rini is an academic and professor of philosophy at Massey University in New Zealand. Her research interests include Aristotelian logic, modal logic, and the history of logic.

Academic career
Rini earned a bachelor's degree at Smith College. She graduated with a PhD from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1997, with the thesis Modal Propositions in Aristotle's Syllogistic supervised by Gareth Matthews.

She moved to New Zealand in 1993 to Victoria University of Wellington, and in 1999 took a lecturing position at Massey University. She was promoted to full professor in 2018, with effect from 1 January 2019.