Dr. Lyn Boyd-Judson

Dr. Boyd-Judson is CEO of the Oxford Initiative for Global Ethics and Human Rights (501c3) and founder of the Global Women's Narratives Project. In keeping with the goals of the Initiative, Boyd-Judson leads interdisciplinary short courses at Oxford on themes of war & peace, global health, duty of care, religion, politics, trauma-sensitive interviewing, and the critical importance of women's lived experiences across these themes. She also guides teams of GWNP volunteers and partners biannually to gather women's stories from around the world—Tbilisi, Cairo, Belfast, Harare, Sarajevo, Los Angeles, Thessaloniki, Nashville, Geneva, Rio de Janeiro, Hong Kong, et al.

A sought-after speaker, Boyd-Judson presented her work on strategic moral diplomacy at the US Air War College, the Council of Ministers of the European Union, the University of Oxford, the University of Madrid, the Fulbright Commission Spain, and the Neimeyer Cultural Center of Spain.

She teaches an annual course on narrative ethics in USC's Keck School of Medicine's MS program in Narrative Medicine and has been invited to teach a new course on human security in USC's MA program in Global Security Studies beginning in the fall of 2025.

In addition to her current work, Dr. Boyd-Judson previously held the UNESCO Chair for Global Humanities and Ethics, directed USC's Institute for Humanities and Ethics for eleven years, and chaired the Women's Caucus for International Studies (ISA). She taught graduate and undergraduate courses for fifteen years at the University of Southern California across the Honors Program, School of International Relations, School of Religion, and the School of Journalism.

Dr. Boyd-Judson's books include Strategic Moral Diplomacy: Understanding the Enemy's Moral Universe (2011) and Women's Global Health: State Policies and International Norms (2014) with Patrick James. 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.