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Taeku Lee

Associate Professor of Political Science

Taeku Lee is a political scientist with primary research interests in racial and ethnic politics, public opinion and survey research methods, social movements and political behavior. His book, Mobilizing Public Opinion (2002), received the American Political Science Association’s J. David Greenstone Award and the Southern Political Science Association’s V.O. Key Award. He recently edited a volume (with S. Karthick Ramakrishnan and Ricardo Ramírez) on immigrant political incorporation titled Transforming Politics, Transforming America (2006) and is completing a book on party identification and the politics of race and immigration, titled Race, Immigration, and Political Independents in America (with Zoltan Hajnal). Lee is also embarking on a new book on the uses and meanings of “race” and “identity” in the social sciences. His latest projects include the development of new measures of racial and ethnic self-identification and a multi-state study of the politics of Asians in America (with Jane Junn, S. Karthick Ramakrishnan, and Janelle Wong).

At Berkeley, Lee is Director of the IGS Center on the Politics of Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity and Chair of the Diversity and Democracy Cluster of the Berkeley Diversity Research Initiative. Lee is co-Program Chair for the 2008 Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting and has served in advisory and consultative capacities for community-based organizations, transnational NGOs, think tanks, and a Fortune 500 company. Prior to coming to Berkeley, Lee was Assistant Professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He was born in South Korea, grew up in Malaysia and New York City, and is a product of K-12 public schools, the University of Michigan (A.B.), Harvard University (M.P.P.), and the University of Chicago (Ph.D.).