Institution:
Bae Family Professor of Government and Faculty Dean of Dunster House, Harvard University

Interests:
Race and ethnicity; public opinion and political behavior; immigration; identity and inequality; partisanship; political participation; deliberative and participatory democracy; social movements; social and health policy; financial regulation and economic policy; media and politics; Asian American politics; survey and experimental methods.

Description:
Taeku Lee is the Bae Family Professor of Government and Faculty Dean of Dunster House at Harvard University, where his work focuses on racial and ethnic politics, public opinion, political engagement, identity, and inequality. He is President of the American Political Science Association, Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as a 2024 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. His recent books include Race and Inequality in America (Cambridge University Press, 2025, with Zoltan Hajnal and Vincent Hutchings) and the forthcoming Billionaire Backlash (with Pepper Culpepper, Bloomsbury, 2026), which examines how corporate scandals can reshape democratic politics. Born in Masan, South Korea, and raised in Malaysia, New York City, and Michigan, he studied at the University of Michigan, Harvard, and the University of Chicago, and he frequently contributes to debates on race, democracy, and inequality in the United States.