Sheena Chestnut Greitens

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 at the University of Texas at Austin. She was First Lady of Missouri from 2017 to 2018.

Sheena Chestnut Greitens
First Lady of Missouri
In role
January 9, 2017 – June 1, 2018
GovernorEric Greitens
Preceded byGeorganne Wheeler
Succeeded byTeresa Parson
Personal details
Born
Sheena Elise Chestnut

(1982-11-23) November 23, 1982
Spouse
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(m. 2011; div. 2020)​
Children2
EducationStanford University (BA)
St Antony's College, Oxford (MPhil)
Harvard University (PhD)
Academic work
DisciplinePolitical science
Sub-disciplineNational security studies
Asian studies
InstitutionsUniversity of Texas, Austin

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][3]

Career

Greitens' research focuses primarily on East Asia, American national security, authoritarian politics and foreign policy.[4][5] She is 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]

Personal life

From 2011 to 2020, she was married to former Missouri Governor Eric Greitens.[8] They have two children.[9]

References
  1. "Sheena Chestnut, Eric Greitens". The New York Times. 2011-08-05. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-03-24.
  2. "Sheena Chestnut Greitens". Brookings. 2016-03-22. Retrieved 2020-12-14.
  3. "Greitens, Sheena Chestnut". LBJ School of Public Affairs. Retrieved 2021-03-24.
  4. Erickson, Kurt (April 16, 2020). "Former Missouri first lady Sheena Greitens moving to Texas". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Retrieved October 5, 2020.
  5. "Sheena Chestnut Greitens". Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. The University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved October 5, 2020.
  6. "Sheena Chestnut Greitens". American Enterprise Institute - AEI. Retrieved 2023-07-23.
  7. "SHEENA CHESTNUT GREITENS" (PDF). Retrieved July 23, 2023.
  8. Alamdari, Natalia. "Sheena Chestnut Greitens strives to balance roles as professor, Missouri's first lady". Columbia Missourian. Retrieved 2021-03-24.
  9. Suntrup, Jack. "Eric and Sheena Greitens, Missouri's former first couple, ending marriage". STLtoday.com. Retrieved 2020-04-11.
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