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Sheena Chestnut Greitens is Associate Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at UT-Austin, where she directs UT's Asia Policy Program, a joint initiative of the Clements Center for National Security and the Strauss Center for International Security & Law. She is concurrently a Jeane Kirkpatrick Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).
Dr. Chestnut Greitens' research focuses on American national security, East Asia, and authoritarian politics & foreign policy. Her first book, Dictators and their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence (Cambridge, 2016) received multiple academic awards. Her second book, on authoritarianism and diaspora politics, is focused on North Korea and forthcoming later this year from Cambridge University Press (Elements Series in East Asia). She is currently finishing her third book manuscript, on internal security and Chinese grand strategy.
Her work has appeared in academic journals and edited volumes in English, Chinese, and Korean, and in major media outlets. She has also previously testified to Congress on issues of security and democracy in the Indo-Pacific. From 2015-2020, she was an assistant professor of political science at the University of Missouri and co-director of the University's Institute for Korean Studies. She was also previously a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and an adjunct fellow with the Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
In 2017-18, Chestnut Greitens served as the First Lady of Missouri, where she co-led the state's trade missions to China and South Korea, and ran an interagency policy initiative that resulted in major legislative and executive-branch reforms to Missouri's policies on foster care, adoption, and prevention of child abuse and neglect. As an advocate for women's leadership in public policy, she also worked to appoint women to a number of statewide boards and commissions.
She holds a doctorate from Harvard University; an M.Phil from Oxford University, where she studied as a Marshall Scholar; and a bachelor's degree from Stanford University. Further commentary and analysis appear on this website and via Twitter @SheenaGreitens.
Sheena Chestnut Greitens is Associate Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at UT-Austin, where she directs UT's Asia Policy Program, a joint initiative of the Clements Center for National Security and the Strauss Center for International Security & Law. She is concurrently a Jeane Kirkpatrick Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).
Dr. Chestnut Greitens' research focuses on American national security, East Asia, and authoritarian politics & foreign policy. Her first book, Dictators and their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence (Cambridge, 2016) received multiple academic awards. Her second book, on authoritarianism and diaspora politics, is focused on North Korea and forthcoming later this year from Cambridge University Press (Elements Series in East Asia). She is currently finishing her third book manuscript, on internal security and Chinese grand strategy.
Her work has appeared in academic journals and edited volumes in English, Chinese, and Korean, and in major media outlets. She has also previously testified to Congress on issues of security and democracy in the Indo-Pacific. From 2015-2020, she was an assistant professor of political science at the University of Missouri and co-director of the University's Institute for Korean Studies. She was also previously a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and an adjunct fellow with the Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
In 2017-18, Chestnut Greitens served as the First Lady of Missouri, where she co-led the state's trade missions to China and South Korea, and ran an interagency policy initiative that resulted in major legislative and executive-branch reforms to Missouri's policies on foster care, adoption, and prevention of child abuse and neglect. As an advocate for women's leadership in public policy, she also worked to appoint women to a number of statewide boards and commissions.
She holds a doctorate from Harvard University; an M.Phil from Oxford University, where she studied as a Marshall Scholar; and a bachelor's degree from Stanford University. Further commentary and analysis appear on this website and via Twitter @SheenaGreitens.
Photo: DMZ between North and South Korea