Lyn Boyd Judson, Ph.D.

Lyn Boyd-Judson is director of the USC Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics and teaches at the USC School for International Relations and the Annenberg School of Journalism.  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.

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.

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Strategic Moral Diplomacy:  Understanding the Enemy's  Moral Universe (April 2011). 

Boyd-Judson is a Carnegie Global Ethics Scholar, University Fellow of the USC Center for Public Diplomacy, member of the Faculty Advisory Council for the Shoah Foundation Institute, and a member of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society. 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. She is past-chair of the Women's Caucus of the International Studies Association.

Current Projects

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

Religion, Civil Society and Democracy course in Cairo and Istanbul

Summer 2013
 

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