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Randall Amster

Randall Amster
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Born 1966
Brooklyn, NY
Occupation Teacher, writer
Nationality American
Education Brooklyn Law School, J.D.; Arizona State University, Ph.D.

Randall Amster (born in 1966 in Brooklyn, New York) is an author, activist, and educator in areas including peace, ecology, homelessness, and anarchism. He is the director of the Program on Justice and Peace at Georgetown University, and writes for outlets ranging from academic journals to online news media.

Amster has worked as an attorney, judicial clerk, professor, and academic administrator during his professional career.

Amster earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics & Astronomy from the University of Rochester in 1988. He then attended Brooklyn Law School, where he was a Law Review editor, and graduated with a Juris Doctorate in 1991. Following law school, Amster served as a law clerk to a Federal District Court Judge in Miami, FL, and worked for a brief period as an Associate in a large law firm in Manhattan, NY. After a two-year stint traveling through North America, Amster enrolled in a doctoral program in Justice Studies at Arizona State University (ASU), from which he received his Ph.D. in 2002.

In 2001, Amster was hired to teach Peace Studies at Prescott College in Arizona, where he worked as a faculty member and program chair until June 2013. In 2008, he began serving as the Executive Director of the Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA),. He is the editor of the association’s newsletter, The Peace Chronicle, among other duties. Amster also serves on the editorial advisory boards for academic journals including the Contemporary Justice Review, the Journal of Sustainability Education, and the Asian Journal of Peacebuilding, In August 2013, Amster became the director of the Program on Justice and Peace at Georgetown University, where he presently teaches.


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