Taeku Lee is Associate Professor of Political Science and Visiting Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley. His book, Mobilizing Public Opinion (2002), received the American Political Science Association’s J. David Greenstone Award and the Southern Political Science Association’s V.O. Key Award.  He is also co-editor of a volume on immigrant political incorporation titled Transforming Politics, Transforming America (2006) and has recently completed a co-authored book titled Race, Immigration, and (Non)Partisanship in America.  Lee is presently working on a new book of essays on the uses and meanings of “race” and “identity” in the social sciences, a collaborative study of Asian American political engagement, and is co-editing The Oxford Handbook of Racial and Ethnic Politics in the United States. 

At Berkeley, Lee is Director of the IGS Center on Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity and Chair of the Diversity and Democracy Cluster of the Berkeley Diversity Research Initiative.  Lee served as co-Program Chair for the 2008 Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting and has also served in advisory and consultative capacities for various academic publications, community-based organizations and NGOs, think tanks, and a Fortune 500 company. Prior to coming to Berkeley, Lee was Assistant Professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He was born in South Korea, grew up in Malaysia and New York City, and is a product of K-12 public schools, the University of Michigan (A.B.), Harvard University (M.P.P.), and the University of Chicago (Ph.D.).