Taeku Lee
Taeku Lee is the Bae Family Professor of Government at Harvard University where he researches and writes on racial and ethnic politics, public opinion and political behavior, identity and inequality, and deliberative and participatory democracy. His current projects include a forthcoming Cambridge University Press book on the centrality of race in American politics, a six-country study of public opinion on banks and banking, and research into anti-Asian American sentiments and the racial formation of Asian Americans.
Professor Lee serves on numerous academic boards, including the American Academy of Political and Social Science and the Board of Overseers of the American National Election Studies. He is also Senior Fellow with the AAPI Civic Engagement Fund and was co-Principal Investigator of the 2008, 2012, 2016 National Asian American Survey and Managing Director of Asian American Decisions.
He previously taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and was a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar at Yale, Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute, Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Visiting Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford.
Professor Lee holds degrees from the University of Michigan, Harvard, and University of Chicago.