An expert on Poverty and War and Peace-Just War, Kathleen Maas Weigert is the Executive Director of the Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching and Service at Georgetown University. She is a Research Professor in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology and the Program on Justice & Peace. At the University of Notre Dame, Weigert was Associate Director for Academic Affairs and Research at the Center for Social Concerns, Concurrent Associate Professor in American Studies, and Fellow in the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.
Dr. Weigert received an M.A. in International Relations from the University of Minnesota, and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Notre Dame. She has taught and published on such topics as experiential and community-based education, nonviolence, and education for justice and peace. She co-edited America's Working Poor and is one of the authors of The Search for Common Ground: What Unites and Divides Catholic Americans, which received the "1998 Award for Excellence in Research" from the National Conference of Catechetical Leaders. She is also co-editor of Teaching for Justice: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Peace Studies and Living the Catholic Social Tradition: Cases and Commentary.