Sheena Chestnut Greitens
Affiliated Faculty
Sheena Chestnut Greitens is associate professor in the L.B.J. School of Public Affairs. She also directs UT’s Asia Policy Program, a joint initiative of the Clements Center for National Security and the Strauss Center for International Security and Law. Her teaching and research focus on American national security, East Asia, and the politics of democracy and dictatorship.
In 2022, Greitens was a Jeane Kirkpatrick Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Her current book projects focus on authoritarianism and diaspora politics in North Korea and on internal security as a driver of Chinese grand strategy.
Education
PhD in government, Harvard University
Publications
Dictators and Their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence
