Taeku Lee

Bae Family Professor of Government

Taeku Lee is Bae Family Professor of Government and Faculty Dean of Dunster House at Harvard University. Lee has researched and written extensively on racial and ethnic politics, public opinion and political behavior, identity and inequality, and deliberative and participatory democracy. He recently published Race and Inequality in America (Cambridge University Press, 2025, with Zoltan Hajnal and Vincent Hutchings) and his next book, Billionaire Backlash (with Pepper Culpepper) is due in early 2026 with Bloomsbury.

Lee is also President of the American Political Science Association and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught for two decades. Lee is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the 2024 class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows. He serves on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Political and Social Science and the Board of Overseers of the American National Election Studies. He previously served on the National Advisory Committee for the U.S. Census Bureau and the Board of Overseers of the General Social Survey and has held honorary or visiting appointments at Yale, Oxford, the European University Institute, and the Brookings Institution.

Born in Masan, Korea, Lee spent his childhood years in rural Malaysia, lower Manhattan, and suburban Michigan. He is a proud graduate of K-12 public schools, the University of Michigan, Harvard, and the University of Chicago. In his free time, he is a crossword enthusiast, tennis junkie, and a diehard Michigan Wolverine, Golden State Warrior and Tottenham Hotspur fan.

Contact
taekulee@fas.harvard.edu

617/495-4249

1737 Cambridge Street,
CGIS Knafel Building, Room 420

Subfields
American Politics

Research Methods
Survey Methods | Experiments | Quantitative and Qualitative Methods

Geographic Regions of Study
United States