Sheena Chestnut Greitens
Executive Committee | 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. In 2022, she was a Jeane Kirkpatrick Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Greitens’s teaching and research focus is on American national security, East Asia, and the politics of democracy and dictatorship. She is the author of Dictators and their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence. Her current book projects focus on authoritarianism and diaspora politics in North Korea, and on internal security as a driver of Chinese grand strategy. She completed her Ph.D. in government at Harvard University.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in government at Harvard University
