Susan L. Shirk

Susan L. Shirk
Shirk in 2025
Other names谢淑丽
Alma materMount Holyoke College (BA)
University of California, Berkeley (MA)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Occupation(s)Political scientist; sinologist
EmployerUCSD
SpouseSamuel 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. 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.