About
Hi! My name is Tak-Huen, and I am a PhD candidate in political science (comparative / methods / East Asia) and an MA candidate in economics (theory / behavioral) at UC Berkeley. I am comparativist interested in social identities, social movements, and political behavior in general. Methodologically, I am interested in (formal) theory, experiments, and structural modelling. Prior to Berkeley, I attended public schools in Sha Tin, Hong Kong, and read for a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Merton College, University of Oxford on full financial aid.
Links
- CV
- Bluesky
- Department Profile (Political Science), Department Profile (Economics)
- GitHub
Research
Peer-reviewed papers
- Communication, Coordination, and Surveillance in the Shadow of Repression, with Mai Hassan and Andrew Little
- American Journal of Political Science, 2024
- Open access
- Pour (Tear) Gas on Fire? Violent Confrontations and Anti-Government Backlash, with Kin-Man Wan
- Political Science Research and Methods, 2022
- Ungated preprint
- Coverage in The Diplomat
Ongoing projects
- Aspirations and Violence
- Brokers and Accommodations (with Jieun Kim and Kevin O’Brien)
- Dissonance and Assimilation
- Linguistic Leverage
- Selection and Inference (with Adam Bouyamourn)
- Stand Out, Fit In
- Who Belongs to the Nation?
Pre-PhD Project
- Tak-Huen Chau and Junyan Jiang, Intergroup Relations and Support for Democratization: Evidence from Hong Kong
Teaching
UC Berkeley, Graduate Student Instructor (GSI)
- Spring 2024: Formal Models of Political Science (instructor of record: Sean Gailmard, PhD seminar)
- Summer 2023/4: Game Theory in the Social Sciences (instructor of record: Sean Gailmard)
- Summer 2022: The Politics of Public Policy (instructor of record: David Broockman)
- Fall 2021: Introduction to Empirical Analysis and Quantitative Methods (instructor of record: David Broockman)