Elizabeth Van Wie Davis: Academic Career

Elizabeth Van Wie Davis has worked in academia for decades. Though she took a hiatus after seventeen years to work with the United States government, she has never stopped to academic agenda. In 2009, she began working with the Colorado School of Mines as Director and Professor. She also held the title of Vice Dean at a Colorado School of Mines strategic partner.
While working at the Colorado School of Mines, Elizabeth Van Wie Davis has continued to share her love and knowledge of Asia. She works on energy-related policy issues and has authored four books:

•    “China and the Law of the Sea Convention: Follow the Sea”
•    “Chinese Perspectives on Sino-American Relations”
•    “Islam, Oil and Geopolitics”
•    “Ruling, Resources and Religion in China.”

Dr. Davis’s fifth book, “Ethics of Non-Warfare in Asia,” which assesses the roles of new technologies in the changing status of conflict in Asia, is in progress.

Elizabeth Van Wie Davis’s education includes a Bachelor of Arts degree in Liberal Arts from Shimer College, with which she graduated at age nineteen, a Master of Arts in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. in Foreign Affairs, also from the University of Virginia.