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

Dr. Lyn Boyd-Judson was appointed director of the Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics in August 2008. She has taught previously at the USC School of International Relations, the USC Annenberg School of Journalism (Hong Kong and Cape Town), and Mahkota College, Malaysia. Boyd-Judson’s previous research affiliations include the Carter Center, the Hong Kong Legislative Council, the United States Embassy Berlin, Rand, and USC’s Center for International Studies. She has a PhD in International Relations from the University of Southern California and has attended Vanderbilt University, Furman University, The Hague Academy of International Law, the University of Wales (Aberwystwyth), the Mershon Center for International Security (Ohio State), and the London School of Economics.

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, Georgetown University's Institute of Diplomacy Pew Case Studies, and Leiden Journal of International Law. Boyd-Judson’s book: Strategic Moral Diplomacy: Understanding the Enemy's Moral Universe is forthcoming from Kumarian Press. She is a University Fellow at the USC Center for Public Diplomacy and has served on the executive boards of the International Studies Association-West and the Women's Caucus for International Studies (WCIS), where she is currently Chair-Elect.

Upcoming panels at ISA-West, Saturday, September 26, 2009:

Panel Chair, "Rethinking the 21st Century" 8:30 a.m., Saturday, September 26, San Francisco.

Participant, "Early Reflections on the Obama Administration's Foreign Policy: Ethics and Public Diplomacy" 3:45, Saturday, Sept 26, San Francisco.

Dr. Shlomo Sher
Levan Institute Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Email: ssher@usc.edu

Dr. Shlomo Sher received his PhD in Philosophy with a focus on Ethics from USC in Spring 2009.  He also holds degrees from the University of Warwick and UCLA.  He is interested in the variety and inter-relation of the ethical judgments that make up our everyday lives, and in pedagogy that can help make us better moral deliberators - and hopefully better people.  Dr. Sher spent much of the last two years developing and facilitating a series of experiential business ethics workshops for the Marshall School of Business’s Experiential Learning Center.

Dr. Sher will build several on-going and new Levan projects and teach a course in Bioethics in the Spring Semester. He will work with the director on construction of the Levan online ethics center, planning a faculty workshop for the College, and other projects and collaborations.

Christine Wicker
Levan Literature and Ethics Series

Christine Wicker is most recently the author of "The Fall of the Evangelical Nation: The Surprising Crisis Inside the Church," an expose of how media and politicians have helped the religious right gain far more power than their actual numbers merit. An award-winning reporter and editor with The Dallas Morning News, she covered Pope John Paul II's visit to Cuba, Lady Diana's funeral, the United Nation's Women's Conference in Nairobi, and reconciliation efforts in Northern Ireland and Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall. She is currently working with Ten Worlds Production Company on selling two of her other books for television docu-dramas. She is married to Philip Seib, USC professor of journalism and public diplomacy.

Elizabeth Connely, Carnegie Ethics Studio, Website

Jessica Pandzic, General Programming

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