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Dr. Lyn Boyd-Judson
Director
213.740.5499
Email: lynboyd@usc.edu

Lyn Boyd Judson is director of the USC Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics and has taught at the USC Annenberg School of Journalism and the USC School for International Relations. Previous affiliations include RAND, the Carter Center of Emory University, the Hong Kong Legislative Council, the United States Embassy Berlin-Third Reich Document Center, the USC's Center for International Studies, the Walt Disney Company Asia-Pacific, and Dow Jones News Service.

Boyd-Judson's research and teaching focus on diplomacy, ethics, global governance, and international negotiation. Her first book was published April 2011, Strategic Moral Diplomacy: Understanding the Enemy's Moral Universe. She has published in International Studies Quarterly, Foreign Policy Analysis, Carnegie Pew Case Studies in Ethics and Diplomacy (Georgetown University), and Leiden Journal of International Law. She is currently working on books on the ethics of state involvement in women's global health (edited with Patrick James, USC) and stories of global citizenship (co-author Julia Taylor Kennedy, Carnegie Council).

Boyd-Judson is a University Fellow at the USC Center for Public Diplomacy, faculty advisor for the USC Journal of Law and Society, and a member of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society. In Fall 2010, she was selected as a Global Fellow of the Carnegie Counci for Ethics in International Affairs, a three-year commitment as member of a working group to re-imagine a global ethic. She has served on the executive boards of the International Political Science Association RC 29, the International Studies Association-West and the Women's Caucus for International Studies (ISA), of which she is a past Chair.

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Recent Panels:

"Just Claims and Avoidable Losses: Zimbabwe's Land Seizures" Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 4, 2011.

"Women Don't Ask and Women Don't Say No: Plenary Roundtable Session" International Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, March 17, 2011.

Current teaching:

International Relations 101: Global Affairs in the 21st Century

Elizabeth Connely
Levan Program Coordinator
Email: connely@usc.edu

Please contact Dr. Boyd-Judson if you are interested in a work-study opportunity with the Institute.

ADVISORY BOARD:

Dallas Willard (Chair)
Professor of Philosophy

Edward Finegan
Professor of Linguistics and Law

Thomas Habinek
Chair and Professor of Classics

Steve Lamy
Vice Dean of Academic Programs and Professor, School of International Relations

Sharon Lloyd
Professor of Philosophy, Law, and Political Science

Abraham Lowenthal
Robert F. Erburu Chair in Ethics, Globalization and Development and Professor,
School of International Relations

Donald Miller
Leonard K. Firestone Professor of Religion and Professor of Religion and Sociology