Justin D. Lyons

Justin D. Lyons, Associate Professor of Political Science, joined Ashland University in 2004. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Politics from the Institute of Philosophic Studies, University of Dallas as well as an M.A. from The Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto.

Courses Taught:

• HIST 112 Western Civilization
• HIST 113 Western Civilization
• HIST 267 Medieval Europe
• POLSC 101 Understanding Politics
• POLSC 205 Comparative Politics
• POLSC 231 International Relations
• POLSC 305 Political Parties and Interest Groups
• POLSC 315 The Presidency and Congress
• POLSC 343 Western Political Thought I: Ancient
• POLSC 344 Western Political Thought II: Medieval
• POLSC 355 International Organizations
• POLSC 380 Topics in Political Thought: Churchill
• POLSC 390 The British Empire
• POLSC 390 The England of Shakespeare and Churchill
• HIST 268 Renaissance and Reformation
• HIST 321 Warfare: Ancient and Modern

Publications:

• “Churchill on Science and Civilization,” The New Atlantis: A Journal of Technology and Society, Number 28, (Summer 2010), pp. 75-84.
• “Thucydides, Churchill, and the Writing of Political History,” Citizens and Statesmen: An Annual Review of Political Theory and Public Life, Volume IV (2009), pp. 98-129.
• Introduction to Louis Kronenberger, Kings and Desperate Men: Life in Eighteenth-Century England (Transaction Publishers, 2009).
• Review: Peter Clarke, The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire: Churchill, Roosevelt, and the Birth of the Pax Americana (Bloomsbury Press, 2008) in the Journal of World History Vol. 20, No. 4 (December 2009).
• "Winston Churchill's Constitutionalism: A Critique of Socialism in America," First Principles Series, No. 25 (The Heritage Foundation, 2009).
• Review: Martin Gilbert, Churchill and the Jews: A Lifelong Friendship (Henry Holt and Company 2007) in Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Winter 2009).
• "Sir Winston Churchill," Encyclopedia of Political Communication, Vol. 1, SAGE Publications, Inc., 2007, 103-104.
• "Winston Churchill and the Rhetorical Challenges of Democratic Statesmanship," Perspectives on Political Science, vol. 35, no. 1 (Winter 2006), pp. 4-13.
• Review: Paul Addison, Churchill: The Unexpected Hero (Oxford, 2005). Journal of British Studies, Vol. 45, No. 2 (April 2006).
• Remembering Winston Churchill: A Possession for All Time, November 30, 2004 (ashbrook.org) Reprinted in Finest Hour: Journal of the Churchill Centre and Societies, Number 127 (Summer 2005).
• "The Temple and the Tower: Winston Churchill on the Political Language of Peace," Perspectives on Political Science, vol. 33, no. 1 (Winter 2004), pp. 30-39.