Sheena Chestnut Greitens Explained

Sheena Chestnut Greitens
Office:First Lady of Missouri
Governor:Eric Greitens
Term Label:In role
Term Start:January 9, 2017
Term End:June 1, 2018
Predecessor:Georganne Wheeler
Successor:Teresa Parson
Birth Name:Sheena Elise Chestnut
Birth Date:23 November 1982
Children:2
Education:Stanford University (BA)
St Antony's College, Oxford (MPhil)
Harvard University (PhD)
Module:
Child:yes
Discipline:Political science
Sub Discipline:National security studies
Asian studies
Workplaces:University of Texas, Austin

Sheena Elise Chestnut Greitens (born November 23, 1982) is an American political scientist currently serving as an associate professor in 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

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 PhD from Harvard University.[2]

Career

Greitens' research focuses primarily on East Asia, American national security, authoritarian politics and foreign policy.[3] [4] She is a Jeane Kirkpatrick Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute[5] and was a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution's Center for East Asia Policy Studies from 2016 to 2021.[6] [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.

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.

She is a participant of the Task Force on U.S.-China Policy convened by the Asia Society's Center on US-China Relations.[8]

Publications

Articles

Personal life

From 2011 to 2020, she was married to former Missouri Governor Eric Greitens.[14] They have two children.[15]

Notes and References

  1. News: 2011-08-05. Sheena Chestnut, Eric Greitens. en-US. The New York Times. 2021-03-24. 0362-4331.
  2. Web site: Greitens, Sheena Chestnut. 2021-03-24. LBJ School of Public Affairs. en.
  3. News: Former Missouri first lady Sheena Greitens moving to Texas . April 16, 2020 . St. Louis Post-Dispatch . Kurt . Erickson . October 5, 2020 .
  4. Web site: Sheena Chestnut Greitens . Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs . The University of Texas at Austin . October 5, 2020 .
  5. Web site: Sheena Chestnut Greitens . 2023-07-23 . American Enterprise Institute - AEI . en-US.
  6. Web site: 2016-03-22. Sheena Chestnut Greitens. 2020-12-14. Brookings. en-US.
  7. Web site: SHEENA CHESTNUT GREITENS . July 23, 2023.
  8. Web site: The Task Force on U.S.-China Policy . https://web.archive.org/web/20240108205426/https://asiasociety.org/center-us-china-relations/task-force-us-china-policy . January 8, 2024 . 2024-01-29 . Asia Society . en.
  9. News: Greitens . Sheena Chestnut . Kardon . Isaac . 2024-03-15 . Playing Both Sides of the U.S.-Chinese Rivalry . 2024-03-15 . Foreign Affairs . en-US . 0015-7120.
  10. Web site: linapark . 2024-02-13 . How North Korean defectors shape the policies of countries where they settle . 2024-02-15 . NK PRO . en-US.
  11. News: Greitens . Sheena Chestnut . 2023-07-28 . Xi's Security Obsession . en-US . Foreign Affairs . 2023-12-09 . 0015-7120.
  12. News: Greitens . Sheena Chestnut . 2022-10-03 . Xi Jinping's Quest for Order . en-US . Foreign Affairs . 2023-12-09 . 0015-7120.
  13. News: Greitens . Sheena Chestnut . Gewirtz . Julian . 2020-07-10 . China's Troubling Vision for the Future of Public Health . en-US . Foreign Affairs . 2023-12-09 . 0015-7120.
  14. Web site: Alamdari. Natalia. Sheena Chestnut Greitens strives to balance roles as professor, Missouri's first lady. 2021-03-24. Columbia Missourian. 20 February 2017 . en.
  15. Web site: Eric and Sheena Greitens, Missouri's former first couple, ending marriage. Suntrup. Jack. STLtoday.com. en. 2020-04-11.

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