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, with a geographical interest in East Asia. Methodologically, I am interested in (formal) theory, experiments, and structural modelling. Prior to Berkeley, I attended local public schools in Sha Tin, Hong Kong, and read for a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Merton College, University of Oxford on a full scholarship.

Updates

Time	Update
	I’m excited to be joining the Political Science and Political Economy (PSPE) group at the Department of Government of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) as an Assistant Professor this September! Looking forward to learning from new colleagues and students. I’m incredibly grateful for everyone who’s supported me along the way, and I’ll try to pay it forward - with interest!
December 2024	The first draft for Who Belongs to the Nation? is here!

Links

• CV
• Bluesky
• Department Profile (Political Science), Department Profile (Economics)
• Email
• 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
• 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

Working paper

• Who Belongs to the Nation?

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

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 2024/5: 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)