Lyn Boyd Judson, Ph.D.

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, USC’s Center for International Studies, the Walt Disney Company Asia-Pacific, and Dow Jones News Services.

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Strategic Moral Diplomacy: Understanding the Enemy's Moral Universe

(April 2011). 

Boyd-Judson's research and  teaching focus on diplomacy, ethics, global governance, and international negotiation. 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 (with Patrick James, USC) and stories of global citizenship.

She is a University Fellow at the USC Center for Public Diplomacy, a member of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society and has served on the executive boards of the International Political Science Association RC 29, the International Studies Association-West and Women's Caucus for International Studies. She is Past-Chair of the Women's Caucus of the International Studies Association.

Current Projects

Zimbabwe: A Case Study of Moral Claims, Self-Interest,  and Land Redistribution

Co-edited book project with Patrick James: Women’s Global Health: State Policies and Ethical Norms

Problems Without Passports course, Cairo, Egypt, Summer 2011
 

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