ABOUT
Taeku Lee is Bae Family Professor of Government at Harvard University and President-Elect of the American Political Science Association. Lee has written extensively on racial and ethnic politics, public opinion and survey research, identity and inequality, and democratic politics, broadly. His book Race and Inequality in America: An Imperfect Union? (with Zoltan Hajnal and Vincent Hutchings) is forthcoming with Cambridge and he is completing The Billionaire Backlash (with Pepper Culpepper), under contract with Bloomsbury. Lee was previously on faculty at UC-Berkeley in the Department of Political Science and School of Law for two decades and has held honorary or visiting appointments at Yale, Oxford, the European University Institute, and Brookings. Lee is a member of the 2024 class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows and currently on the boards of the American Academy of Political and Social Science and the American National Election Studies. He previously served on the National Advisory Committee for the U.S. Census Bureau and the Board of the General Social Survey. Lee was Co-Principal Investigator of the 2008, 2012, 2016 National Asian American Survey and founding director of Asian American Decisions.
Born in Masan, South Korea, Lee spent his childhood years in rural Malaysia,lower Manhattan, and suburban Michigan. In his free time, he is a crossword enthusiast, tennis junkie, and a diehard Michigan Wolverine, Golden State Warrior and Tottenham Hotspur fan.