John T. Crist
Title: Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs
Expertise: Conflict resolution, social movements
Room Number: A154A Office Phone: +974-457-8303
John T. Crist is Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Qatar. He received his Ph.D. in interdisciplinary social science from the Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University (1998). He returned to the Maxwell School in spring 2008, as a visiting fellow at the PARC program.
Crist taught courses in sociology, peace studies, conflict resolution, and research methods at the M.A. in Conflict Resolution Program on Georgetown University’s main campus, the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, Maxwell School at Syracuse University, the Peace Studies Program at Colgate University, and the Department of Sociology at the Catholic University of America. He has published journal articles and book reviews on social movements, nonviolent action, and the policing of demonstrations. He edited a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography on ethnographic fieldwork in war zones and post-conflict settings. As a fellow of the Albert Einstein Institution (1990–93), he conducted extensive archival research in England and India on the politics of nonviolent mobilization during the Gandhian anti-colonial struggle in India.
Dr. Crist has extensive experience in fellowship administration. He was program officer (1995-99), senior program officer (2000-2006), and acting associate vice president (2006-07) of the Jennings Randolph Program for International Peace at the U.S. Institute of Peace, a think-tank established and funded by the U.S. Congress to promote the prevention and resolution of violent international conflicts. In 2008, he conducted an evaluation research project of the Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows program at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, D.C.
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Upcoming SFS-Qatar Events
- Dec 1, 5:30pm: Faculty Film Series
- Dec 6, 6pm-8pm: Monthly Dialogue: Kai-Henrik Barth
SFS-Qatar News
- Georgetown University in Qatar Offers Pre-College Series to Hoya Hopefuls
Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar just concluded the Georgetown Pre-College Series (GPS) which gave prospective undergraduates a taste of college life and a unique opportunity to gain valuable information on the admissions process. (November 22, 2009) - Students Get Hands-On Lesson in Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution
On November 13 and 14, Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Qatar (SFS-Qatar) and Institute for the Study of Diplomacy (ISD) hosted a crisis simulation exercise for students at Education City. (November 22, 2009) - Student Gets Education at International Finance Conference
This October, Georgetown student Miodrag Stamboldziev (SFS ’11) was able to put his international relations education to use while attending the Annual Meeting of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund in Istanbul, Turkey. (November 08, 2009)
