Dr. Jean A. Garrison
Dr. Jean A. Garrison is the Clyde E. and Jerrine N. Professor of Public Service in the School of Politics, Public Affairs, & International Studies (SPPAIS) at the University of Wyoming. She is also the founding director of the Center for Global Studies (2014-19, 2020) and former head of the Global and Area Studies Program/International Studies Program (2008-14), as well as interim department head for Modern and Classical Languages (2014-15). In 2015, she was a senior fellow at the Free University of Berlin. She is also a past recipient of a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship, where she worked in the Office of Chinese and Mongolian Affairs in the U.S. State Department in Washington, DC. She is the co-editor of Polarization and Deep Contestation (Oxford University Press, 2024), and the sole author of three books focusing on foreign policy advisory systems, U.S.-China relations, and Chinese energy security, along with numerous articles focusing on American foreign relations.
