Brantly Womack is Professor Emeritus of Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia, where he has held the Cumming professorial chair, and Senior Faculty Fellow at the Miller Center, where he has held the CK Yen professorial chair.
A native of Texas, Womack received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago in 1977.
He was briefly a Reader in Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London.
[1] He retired from the University in June 2021 and remains active in his scholarship and teaching.
He holds the Boeing Visiting Faculty Chair in International Relations of Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University, Beijing for 2022-2023.