Elizabeth Van Wie Davis

Elizabeth Van Wie Davis (born 1958) is an American academic specializing in international affairs.

Elizabeth Van Wie Davis
Born1958
NationalityAmerican
Known forIslam, Oil and Geopolitics: Central Asia after September 11

Education

Davis received her BA in Liberal Arts from Shimer College. She obtained her PhD in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia in 1985. Her dissertation was a study of East Asian maritime law, titled Oceans Policy: A New Search for Cooperation.[1]

Career

Davis has worked at Mary Baldwin College, Illinois State University, Johns Hopkins University's SAIS Center for Chinese and American Studies in Nanjing, China, and the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, a U.S. Department of Defense academic institute.

After serving as the Director of Liberal Arts and International Studies Department at the Colorado School of Mines, in 2014 she accepted the position of Vice Dean for Research at Nazarbayev University, which she held for one year.[2] Afterwards, she returned to the Colorado School of Mines as Professor.[3]

Bibliography
  • Ruling, Resources and Religion in China: Managing the Multiethnic State in the 21st Century. (2012) ISBN 1137033835
  • Islam, Oil and Geopolitics: Central Asia after September 11 (co-edited with Rouben Azizian). (2006) ISBN 0742541290
  • Chinese Perspectives on Sino-American Relations 1950-2000 (edited, Chinese Studies Series, 12). (2000) ISBN 0773478078
  • China and the Law of the Sea Convention: Follow the Sea. (1995) ISBN 0773490590

References
  1. "Oceans Policy". Worldcat. Retrieved 2015-08-04.
  2. China's Terror Problem Worsens: Uighurs Stage First Suicide Bombing Retrieved on 17 July 2015, NBC
  3. American Vice Dean Brings Background in Chinese Studies, Extractive Industries to Nazarbayev University Retrieved on 17 July 2015, Edgekz
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