Sheena Chestnut Greitens
Sheena Chestnut Greitens | |
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| First Lady of Missouri | |
| In role January 9, 2017 – June 1, 2018 | |
| Governor | Eric Greitens |
| Preceded by | Georganne Wheeler |
| Succeeded by | Teresa Parson |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Sheena Elise Chestnut November 23, 1982 |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 |
| Education | Stanford University (BA) St Antony's College, Oxford (MPhil) Harvard University (PhD) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Political science |
Sub-discipline | National security studies Asian studies |
| Institutions | University of Texas, Austin |
Sheena Elise Chestnut Greitens (born November 23, 1982) is an American political scientist. She is an associate professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. She was First Lady of Missouri from 2017 to 2018.
Education
[edit]Greitens was raised in Spokane, Washington. Her father is a doctor who specializes in the treatment of sleep disorders and her mother is an oncologist.[1] She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University, a Master of Philosophy from St Antony's College, Oxford, as a Marshall Scholar, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University.[2][3]
Career
[edit]Greitens' research focuses primarily on East Asia, U.S. national security, authoritarian politics and foreign policy.[4][5] She was a Jeane Kirkpatrick Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute[6] and was a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution's Center for East Asia Policy Studies from 2016 to 2021.[2][7] She was previously Assistant Professor of Political Science at University of Missouri from 2015-2020 and co-director of the Institute of Korean Studies, 2017-2020.[8]
Greitens has written about foreign relations and national security for RealClearPolitics, Foreign Policy, War on the Rocks, Foreign Affairs, The National Interest, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and others.[7]
She is a participant of the Task Force on U.S.-China Policy convened by the Asia Society's Center on US-China Relations.[9] In August 2024, Greitens was announced as the Texas National Security Review's editor-in-chief.[10]
Publications
[edit]Articles
[edit]- Playing Both Sides of the U.S.-Chinese Rivalry, Foreign Affairs, March 15, 2024 (co-authored with Isaac Kardon)[11]
- How North Korean defectors shape the policies of countries where they settle, NK News, February 13, 2024[12]
- Xi’s Security Obsession, Foreign Affairs, July 28, 2023[13]
- Xi Jinping’s Quest for Order, Foreign Affairs, October 3, 2022[14]
- China’s Troubling Vision for the Future of Public Health, Foreign Affairs, July 10, 2020 (co-authored with Julian Gewirtz)[15]
Personal life
[edit]From 2011 to 2020, she was married to former Missouri Governor Eric Greitens.[8] They have two children,[16] of whom she has primary custody.[17]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Sheena Chestnut, Eric Greitens". The New York Times. 2011-08-05. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-03-24.
- 1 2 "Sheena Chestnut Greitens". Brookings. 2016-03-22. Retrieved 2020-12-14.
- ↑ "Greitens, Sheena Chestnut". LBJ School of Public Affairs. Retrieved 2021-03-24.
- ↑ Erickson, Kurt (April 16, 2020). "Former Missouri first lady Sheena Greitens moving to Texas". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Retrieved October 5, 2020.
- ↑ "Sheena Chestnut Greitens". Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. The University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved October 5, 2020.
- ↑ "Sheena Chestnut Greitens". American Enterprise Institute - AEI. Retrieved 2023-07-23.
- 1 2 "SHEENA CHESTNUT GREITENS" (PDF). Retrieved July 23, 2023.
- 1 2 Alamdari, Natalia (20 February 2017). "Sheena Chestnut Greitens strives to balance roles as professor, Missouri's first lady". Columbia Missourian. Retrieved 2021-03-24.
- ↑ "The Task Force on U.S.-China Policy". Asia Society. Archived from the original on January 8, 2024. Retrieved 2024-01-29.
- ↑ "Announcing Sheena Chestnut Greitens as the Editor-in-Chief of the Texas National Security Review - Asia Policy Program". University of Texas. Retrieved 2024-12-27.
- ↑ Greitens, Sheena Chestnut; Kardon, Isaac (2024-03-15). "Playing Both Sides of the U.S.-Chinese Rivalry". Foreign Affairs. ISSN 0015-7120. Retrieved 2024-03-15.
- ↑ linapark (2024-02-13). "How North Korean defectors shape the policies of countries where they settle". NK PRO. Retrieved 2024-02-15.
- ↑ Greitens, Sheena Chestnut (2023-07-28). "Xi's Security Obsession". Foreign Affairs. ISSN 0015-7120. Retrieved 2023-12-09.
- ↑ Greitens, Sheena Chestnut (2022-10-03). "Xi Jinping's Quest for Order". Foreign Affairs. ISSN 0015-7120. Retrieved 2023-12-09.
- ↑ Greitens, Sheena Chestnut; Gewirtz, Julian (2020-07-10). "China's Troubling Vision for the Future of Public Health". Foreign Affairs. ISSN 0015-7120. Retrieved 2023-12-09.
- ↑ Suntrup, Jack. "Eric and Sheena Greitens, Missouri's former first couple, ending marriage". STLtoday.com. Retrieved 2020-04-11.
- ↑ Keller, Rudi (11 September 2022). "Missouri judge sealed Greitens ruling. Texas court provided full details". STLPR. Retrieved 12 December 2025.
External links
[edit]- Sheena Chestnut Greitens publications indexed by Google Scholar
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- 1982 births
- American political scientists
- American women political scientists
- Brookings Institution people
- First ladies and gentlemen of Missouri
- Harvard University alumni
- American international relations scholars
- Living people
- University of Texas at Austin faculty
- American women in politics
- United States–Asia relations
- 21st-century American women academics
- 21st-century American academics