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Jennifer Pan is a political scientist specializing in political communication, digital media, and authoritarian politics. She holds the Sir Robert Ho Tung Professorship in Chinese Studies at Stanford University and serves as a Professor of Communication and a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Pan's research employs experimental and computational methods alongside large-scale datasets to examine the role of digital media in politics, political censorship, propaganda, and information manipulation in the digital age. Her work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals, including the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, and Nature. She graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University and obtained her PhD from Harvard University's Department of Government.
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