Dan Spinelli is a first-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Southern California, where he studies institutions and governance issues in East Asia. He previously was a program specialist for the China team at the U.S. Institute of Peace, where he focused on cross-Strait issues. Dan has a master’s degree in Asian Studies from Georgetown University and a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Pennsylvania. Before going to graduate school, he worked as a national security reporter for Mother Jones magazine in Washington, DC. He is a proud native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
