Faculty Profile: Bill Lyons

Interim Chair, Department of Political Science
Associate Professor of Political Science
Director, Center for Conflict Management

Contact Information:
202 Olin Hall
Akron, Ohio 44325-1904
330.972.5855
wtlyons@uakron.edu
Center for Conflict Management

Ph.D., University of Washington: Public Law, Political Theory, American Politics
MALD, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Pacific-Rim Politics
B.A., University of Massachusetts-Amherst: Economics and Chinese Language

In 2004 Bill was chosen by UA students as Faculty of the Year and was recognized by the Office of Multicultural Development as their annual Diversity Award Recipient for his special topics class Understanding Racial Conflict. Bill was selected by the US Department of State as a Fulbright Scholar to live and teach in Beijing for 2000-2001. Before that he lived in China for three years as a student and taught US Government in Pecs, Hungary for the academic year 1992-1993. Bill is a lifelong Red Sox fan, dog lover, who enjoys body surfing, pick-up basketball, ping-pong, biking, and golf.

Courses: Law, Mediation, and Violence; Crime, Punishment, and Politics: A Comparative Perspective; Law and Society; Government and Politics in the United States; Alternatives to Violence.

Bill's major publications include a 1999 book from the University of Michigan Press, The Politics of Community Policing: Rearranging the Power to Punish, a 2006 edited collection from Dartmouth-Ashgate Press, Crime and Criminal Justice, and a 2006 book from the University of Michigan Press (co-authored with Julie Drew), Punishing Schools: Fear and Citizenship in American Public Education.