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Dan Shortridge

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    Dan Shortridge’s beats in the School of Arts & Sciences (SAS) include Political Science; History, International Relations; East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures; Francophone, Italian, and Germanic Studies; Russian and East European Studies; and Economics, as well as the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy, The Lauder Institute (Wharton/SAS), Penn Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies (PORES), McNeil Center for Early American Studies, Penn Institute for Economic Research, the Center for Study of Contemporary China, Center for East Asian Studies, Christopher H. Browne Center for International Politics, Fels Institute of Government, and Center for the Study of Ethnicity, Race, & Immigration. In addition, he covers Penn Carey Law, the SNF Paideia Program, and for Penn Global he covers the China Research and Engagement Fund, Penn Washington, and Perry World House.

    Articles from Dan Shortridge
    Forum addresses foreign policy priorities for the U.S.
    Three people sit in chairs on a stage in front of a Perry World House logo. The person in the middle is talking with a hand-held microphone.

    From left, Perry World House panelists Erin Sikorsky, Hussein Banai and Alexander Vershbow at a forum on foreign policy priorities for the incoming administration.

    (Image: Gabrielle Szczepanek)

    Forum addresses foreign policy priorities for the U.S.

    Experts offered predictions and insights for leaders in the incoming administration at a Perry World House forum.
    Vietnamese language program expansion builds cultural community
    A classroom of students sitting behind desks. One student is at the front of the classroom delivering a presentation.

    Students in one of Penn's Vietnamese language classes taught by Hanh Nguyen (upper left) discuss a presentation. Vietnamese recently became part of the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations.

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    Vietnamese language program expansion builds cultural community

    The expansion into the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations has been partly driven by heritage speakers seeking to connect with their families and cultures.
    What comes next for Syria
    A crowd of Syrians gather in an open space. To the right, they are waving a revolutionary flag.

    Syrian citizens wave the revolutionary flag as they celebrate the takeover of the capital Damascus by insurgents.

     (Image: AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

    What comes next for Syria

    Perry World House held a discussion featuring Penn experts to confront the future of Syria after the fall of the Assad regime and what the world can expect.
    South Korea crisis, explained
    A crowd of people are gathered in a public square, facing left, holding candles and carrying signs in a vigil calling for the South Korean president’s resignation.

    People gather in Seoul, South Korea, for a candlelight vigil to call for President Yoon Suk Yeol’s resignation on Dec. 4, following his short-lived martial law declaration.

    (Image: Kyodo via AP Images)

  • Q&A

    • South Korea crisis, explained

    South Korea plunged into a state of national crisis this week over a six-hour martial law declaration by President Yoon Suk Yeol. Roiled by his own sinking popularity and now facing an impeachment inquiry, Yoon’s political future is now on the line.
    Patterns of Soviet Jewish emigration in the post-Stalin era
    A woman in a grey dress stands in front of colorful trees. She is smiling with her arms crossed.

    Alexandra (Sasha) Zborovsky traveled to countries including Lithuana, Georgia, and the Netherlands for her research into Soviet Jews’ emigration from the USSR.

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    Patterns of Soviet Jewish emigration in the post-Stalin era

    For four decades, more than one million Jews left the USSR despite the Soviet Union’s complex bureaucracy and opposition to emigration. Doctoral candidate Sasha Zborovsky explores the intricate dynamics.
    Students fill critical behind-the-scenes Election Day roles for NBC News
    A group of people, seen from behind, watch election results from NBC News on a livestream display at Rockefeller Center in New York City.

    People watch an NBC News livestream showing poll results at Rockefeller Center in New York on Election Day 2024.

    (Image: AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

    Students fill critical behind-the-scenes Election Day roles for NBC News

    Three dozen undergraduates worked with the Penn Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies this year to track turnout, assemble results, and build on-air graphics.
    Top five election takeaways
    A side-scrolling election feed is displayed on the side of a building in Times Square in New York City. There are people below in the foreground.

    A scrolling news feed with election results on election night in Times Square, New York.

    (Image: Charles Guerin/Abaca/Sipa via AP Images)

    Top five election takeaways

    Stephanie Perry, exit polling manager for NBC News and executive director of the Penn Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies, shares insights into what drove voters in Tuesday’s election.
    Event looks at neck-and-neck presidential election
    From left, journalists Greg Sargent, Eugene Daniels, Sarah McCammon and David Drucker share their perspectives and insights on the 2024 election at a recent roundtable on campus.

    From left, journalists Greg Sargent, Eugene Daniels, Sarah McCammon and David Drucker share their perspectives and insights on the 2024 election at a recent roundtable on campus.

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    Event looks at neck-and-neck presidential election

    At a roundtable sponsored by the SNF Paideia Program, political journalists from diverse outlets discussed the states of the presidential campaigns.