Elizabeth Wishnick is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Law at Montclair State University, where she teaches courses in International Relations, Globalization and Security, and Politics of China and Japan. Since 2002 Professor Wishnick has been a Research Associate at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University, where she previously taught courses in Asian Studies. In 2002-3 she was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar in the Department of Politics and Sociology at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. She was also a research fellow at Taiwan's Academia Sinica, the Hoover Institution, and the Davis Center at Harvard University.
Professor Wishnick’s current book project, China as a Risk Society, examines how non-traditional security issues (energy, environment, public health, migration) shape Chinese foreign relations with neighboring states and involve Chinese civil society in foreign policy. She has written numerous articles on great power relations and regional development in Asia, published in Asian Survey, NBR Analysis, SAIS Review, Journal of East Asian Affairs, Issues and Studies, and Perspectives Chinoises, as well as in several edited volumes. In June 2005, she attended the Symposium on Northeast Asian Security in Vladivostok, Russia, as a participant in the U.S. Department of State’s Speaker Program. An alumna of Columbia University’s Harriman Institute, Professor Wishnick is the author of Mending Fences: The Evolution of Moscow's China Policy from Brezhnev to Yeltsin (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001). She received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University, an M.A. in Russian and East European Studies from Yale University, and a B.A. from Barnard College and speaks Chinese, Russian, and French fluently.