Sheena Elise Chestnut Greitens (born November 23, 1982) is an American political scientist who is an associate professor in the
Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs (or LBJ School of Public Affairs) is a graduate school at the University of Texas at Austin that was founded in 1970 to offer training in public policy analysis and administration for students that ar ...
at the
University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,07 ...
. She was
First Lady of Missouri from 2017 to 2018.
Education
Greitens was raised in
Spokane, Washington
Spokane ( ) is the largest city and county seat of Spokane County, Washington, United States. It is in eastern Washington, along the Spokane River, adjacent to the Selkirk Mountains, and west of the Rocky Mountain foothills, south of the Cana ...
. Her father is a doctor who specializes in the treatment of sleep disorders and her mother is an oncologist. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from
Stanford University, a Master of Philosophy from
St Antony's College, Oxford as a
Marshall Scholar
The Marshall Scholarship is a postgraduate scholarship for "intellectually distinguished young Americans ndtheir country's future leaders" to study at any university in the United Kingdom. It is widely considered one of the most prestigious sc ...
, and a PhD from
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...
.
Career
Greitens' research focuses primarily on East Asia, American national security, and authoritarian politics and foreign policy. She is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the
Brookings Institution
The Brookings Institution, often stylized as simply Brookings, is an American research group founded in 1916. Located on Think Tank Row in Washington, D.C., the organization conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in e ...
.
Greitens has written op-ed articles on foreign relations and national security topics for
RealClearPolitics, ''
Foreign Policy'', War on the Rocks, ''
Foreign Affairs'', ''
The National Interest
''The National Interest'' (''TNI'') is an American bimonthly international relations magazine edited by American journalist Jacob Heilbrunn and published by the Center for the National Interest, a public policy think tank based in Washington, ...
'', ''
The Washington Post
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'', ''
The New York Times
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'', and others.
Personal life
From 2011 to 2020, she was married to Missouri Governor
Eric Greitens
Eric Robert Greitens (; born April 10, 1974) is a former American politician who was the 56th governor of Missouri from January 2017 until his resignation in June 2018 amid allegations of sexual assault and campaign finance impropriety.
Born a ...
. They have two children.
References
External links
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1982 births
21st-century American women
American political scientists
American women academics
American women political scientists
Brookings Institution people
First Ladies and Gentlemen of Missouri
Harvard University alumni
International relations scholars
Living people
University of Texas at Austin faculty
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