About

Hi! My name is Tak-Huen, and I am an assistant professor in the Department of Government of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where I am affiliated with the Political Science and Political Economy group. I am interested in social identities, social movements, and political behavior in general. My primary methodological approach is formal theory.

Prior to London, I attended local state 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. I received a PhD in political science and an MA in economics from UC Berkeley in 2025.

Links

• CV
• Bluesky
• Department Profile
• 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
  • 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

Working paper

• Who Belongs to the Nation?, R&R

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 and advising

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LSE

• Winter Term 2026: Political Science and Political Economy: Current Issues (GV482)

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)