She is currently the David M. Lampton Professor of China Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS and Senior Fellow in Chinese Politics, Foreign Policy, and National Security at Asia Society Policy Institute's Center for China Analysis.
[3][4] In 2014, Oxford University Press published her book Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in China’s Foreign Relations.
[4] She was the Michael J. Zak Professor for China and Asia-Pacific Studies at Cornell University's Department of Government.
Ian Johnson described that article in The New Yorker as catapulting her "to the front ranks of the growing number of China experts concerned that U.S. foreign policy suffers from an unhealthy focus on China as a threat.
[13][14] In July 2024, Weiss left Cornell to become the David M. Lampton Professor of China Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS.