Jessica Chen Weiss

Jessica Chen Weiss is the David M. Lampton Professor of China Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS, where she is the inaugural faculty director of the Institute for America, China, and the Future of Global Affairs. Her research examines Chinese nationalism, public opinion, and the domestic politics behind China’s foreign policy. She is the author of Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in China’s Foreign Relations (Oxford, 2014) and What China Wants: And What It Means for the World (Oxford, forthcoming 2027), and co-editor of Citizens and the State in Authoritarian Regimes. She served as senior advisor on the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff in 2021–22, and previously taught at Cornell and Yale. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from UC San Diego.