Dr Christie Johnson is Head of Programmes – Human Resource Development for the Jamat. Christie leads on The IIS’s human resource development programmes for Ismaili community institutions globally.
Dr Christie’s educational research is animated by a curiosity about what makes learning inclusive and methods for sustaining effective adult learning, with a particular longstanding interest in the use of the voice. As an art historian originally trained in languages, literatures and Islamic studies, Christie brings an interdisciplinary perspective to questions of cultural production. He has published on learning development as well as art history.
Dr Christie lectured on literary Arabic and Islamic history at the University of Cambridge before working on international education transformation projects for Bahrain, Egypt, Kazakhstan and Mongolia while at Cambridge International Education (now Cambridge University Press and Assessment). He subsequently undertook consultancy projects for them in Egypt and Qatar. Christie also worked as a special subject tutor in Arabic literature at the University of Oxford.
From 2015 to 2020, Christie served as Programme Leader for the Graduate Programme in Islamic Studies and Humanities at The IIS. In that role, he also contributed to additional development work for the Jamat, including with the Secondary Teacher Education Programme and Postgraduate Preparatory Programmes. Before returning to The IIS, Christie was responsible for learning development provision across pre-degree, undergraduate and postgraduate levels as Head of Academic Support at London College of Communication, a constituent college of University of the Arts London.
Education
MA in History of Art with Photography, Birkbeck University of London, 2019
Postgraduate Certificate in Enhancing Academic Practice, Kings College London, 2017
PhD in Arabic Verbal Arts, SOAS University of London, 2012
MA in Arabic Literature, SOAS University of London, 2007
BA in Arabic and Persian with Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge, 2005
Persian Language and Literature Studies, Shahid Ashrafi Esfahani University, 2003
