Faculty Profile: Bill Lyons

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.

Bill teaches the conflict management core course--Law, Mediation, and Violence—as well as a variety of other courses, including Law and Society, Government and Politics in the United States, and Constitutional Law. 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.
Bill has served as Director of the Center for Conflict Management since 2001. He has been Interim Department Chair since 2008. Please drop into Olin 201A or post wtlyons@uakron.edu or call 972-7409 anytime if you have questions about politics, conflict management, the Red Sox, or how to succeed in college.