Taeku Lee
Associate Professor of Political Science
Phone: (510) 642-4640
Office Location: 726 Barrows
Office Hours:
Fall 2008 Course: PS279-3 Diversity and Democracy
Taeku Lee's primary research interests are in racial and ethnic politics, public opinion and survey research methods, social movements and political behavior.
His book, Mobilizing Public Opinion (2002) on black insurgency and public opinion during the Civil Rights Movement, 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 completed a book on party identification and the politics of race and immigration, titled Race, Immigration, and Non(Partisanship) in America (with Zoltan Hajnal).
Lee is currently co-editing the Oxford Handbook of Racial and Ethnic Politics in the United States (with David Leal and Mark Sawyer), co-editing a publication for the World Bank on Generating Genuine Demand for Accountability (with Sina Odugbemi), and a co-Principal Investigator of the National Asian American Survey project (Jane Junn, S. Karthick Ramakrishnan, and Janelle Wong). He is also working on a new book on the uses and meanings of "race" and "identity" in the social sciences, tentatively titled Race, Identity, Power, and Method.
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 served as co-Program Chair for the 2008 Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting and has served in advisory and consultative capacities for community-based organizations, 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 proud graduate of K-12 public schools, the University of Michigan (A.B.), Harvard University (M.P.P.), and the University of Chicago (Ph.D.).
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