John T. Crist

    John T. Crist is Visiting Fellow with the Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts.  Before joining PARC, he spent nearly fifteen years with the Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C., where he was acting associate vice president and senior program officer.  Crist also taught courses in sociology, peace studies, conflict management, and research methods at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, Syracuse University, the Peace Studies Program at Colgate University, and the Department of Sociology at the Catholic University of America.  In fall 2007, he taught a course on the politics of nonviolent movements with Georgetown University’s M.A. in Conflict Resolution program.

    Crist has published journal articles and book reviews on social movements, nonviolent action, and the policing of demonstrations. 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.  He also served as research manager for two projects funded by the National Science Foundation, on demonstrations in Washington, D.C., and on Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

    He received his Ph.D. in interdisciplinary social science in 1998 from the Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts in the Maxwell School at Syracuse University.

Publications:

    Strategic Nonviolent Conflict: Lessons from the Past, Ideas for the Future
Special Report, May 2002.

    "Ethnography Under the Gun: Fieldwork in Zones of War, Conflict, and Peace," special issue of the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, editor (2001).

    “The Diffusion and Adoption of Public Order Management Systems,” J. McCarthy, C. McPhail, and J. Crist in Social Movements in a Globalizing World, eds. D. della Porta, H. Kriesi, and D. Rucht, London:  Macmillan [1999].

    “If I Had a Hammer: The Changing Methodological Repertoire of Collective Behavior and Social Movement Research,” J. Crist and J. McCarthy, Mobilization 1: 87-102 [1996].