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The Corinne Lyman Lecture will take place on Wednesday, September 24, 2025, at 4:30 p.m. in Corns 312.  The guest lecturer with be OWU Alumna Claire Everhart '10.  

Background on Corinne Lyman and the Lyman Lecture Series

Corinne Lyman was a faculty member in the Politics and Government Department at ³Ô¹ÏÍø from 1968 to 1999. Here she taught International Relations and Organization, and Comparative Government. In 1978 Corinne won the Sherwood Dodge Shankland teaching award.

From the early seventies until the present she participated off campus in at least fifteen seminars or Conferences on International Relations by presenting papers or lectures. She is a member of six professional organizations and has traveled widely in Europe, the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and the Far East.

Dr. Lyman has published at least fifteen book reviews, and has presented papers, or served as panelist, or lectured or served as chairperson on a like number of other occasions.

As a faculty member she served on a least 20 committees, boards, or councils, including Faculty Personnel and Academic Policy, on each of which she served twice. A special task was encouragement and management of a program for faculty scholarships for Black students.

Upon the initiative of Dean Janet Ragatz and with the cooperation of her colleague in Economics, Dr. Norman Gharrity, she was instrumental in establishing the International Studies Program at ³Ô¹ÏÍø in 1979. She remained the Chair of the International Studies Program Committee for the succeeding twenty years, until her retirement in 1999, at which time she was the recipient of the Daniel E. "Andy" Anderson Campus and Community Conscience Award.

The inaugural lecture was held April 8, 2004 as Dr. Stephen Walt of Harvard University spoke on "The Global Response to American Primacy."

Past Speakers