Joshua Eisenman is an Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs and Senior Fellow for China studies at the American Foreign Policy Council. His research focuses on the political economy of China's development and its foreign relations with the global south—particularly Africa. Eisenman’s second book, China and Africa: A Century of Engagement (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012), co-authored with Ambassador David H. Shinn, was named one of the "Best International Relations Books for 2012" by Foreign Affairs. The book’s updated, uncensored Chinese edition was published by the Chinese University of Hong Kong Press in 2020. The pair are now working on their second volume, which examines the China-Africa political and security relationship. Eisenman has been a visiting faculty member at Fudan University (2017), Peking University (2016), and New York University –Shanghai (2011–12). Before joining Notre Dame in 2019, he was assistant professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. Eisenman holds a Ph.D. in political science from UCLA, an MA in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University (SAIS) where he studied at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, and a BA from The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs.
