Susan L. Shirk | |
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Other names | 谢淑丽 |
Alma mater | Mount Holyoke College (BA) University of California, Berkeley (MA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
Occupation(s) | Political scientist; sinologist |
Employer | UCSD |
Spouse | Samuel L. Popkin |
Susan L. Shirk is an American political scientist and China specialist currently serving as a research professor at University of California, San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy.[1] She was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs at the U.S. State Department from 1997 to 2000 during the Clinton administration.[2]