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Taeku Lee
Associate professor of political science

Expertise:
National politics, including public opinion polling, racial and ethnic politics, in general, and Asian-American politics

Contact:
Phone: (510) 642-4640, Monday through Thursday afternoons

Additional contacts:
Kathleen Maclay, Media Relations: (510) 643-5651, kmaclay@berkeley.edu
Roxanne Makasdjian, broadcast: (510) 642-6051, roxannem@berkeley.edu

Background:
Lee's primary research interests are in racial and ethnic politics, public opinion and survey research methods, social movements and political behavior, and health care and social welfare policies. Lee's book "Mobilizing Public Opinion," (2002) received the American Political Science Association's J. David Greenstone Award for the best book on politics and history and the Southern Political Science Association's V.O. Key Award for the best book on Southern politics.

Lee has also written on the role of identity, language, partisanship, political trust, stereotypes and discrimination in shaping contemporary race relations and ethnic politics in the United States. He is currently at work on a second book on party identification and the politics of race and immigration, tentatively titled "Exit, Voice, and Identity" (with Zoltan Hajnal), as well as an edited volume on immigration and political incorporation, tentatively titled "Transforming Politics, Transforming America,"(with Karthick Ramakrishnan and Ricardo Ramirez).
Taeku Lee

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  • Articles

    Forthcoming pieces in journals, manuscripts, under review or recent conference papers:
    • "Social Constructivism, Self-Categorization, and Racial Identity."
    • "Public Opinion and the Politics of America’s Obesity Epidemic."
    • "Mapping Anti-Asian American Stereotypes and Discrimination."
    • "Panethnic Identity, Linked Fate, and the Political Significance of "Asian American."
    • "Language-of-Interview Effects and Latino Mass Opinion."
    • "What’s In a Name? Ethnic Names and Latino Sociopolitical Attitudes and Behavior."
  • Other info
    • Born in Korea, Lee spent his childhood in Malaysia before moving to New York City and suburban Detroit. Prior to coming to UC Berkeley, Lee was an assistant professor at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar at Yale University's Institution for Social and Policy Studies.