About
Hi! My name is Tak-Huen, and I am a PhD candidate in political science (comparative / methods) and an MA candidate in economics (theory / behavioral) at UC Berkeley. I am interested in (formal) theory, beliefs formation, social identities and social movements. Previously, I worked on empirical projects related to the Hong Kong protests.
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
Publication
- Tak-Huen Chau and Kin-Man Wan, Pour (Tear) Gas on Fire? Violent Confrontations and Anti-Government Backlash, 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)
- Communication, Coordination, and Surveillance in the Shadow of Repression (with Mai Hassan and Andrew Little, R&R)
- Dissonance and Assimilation
- Selection and Inference (with Adam Bouyamourn)
- 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, graduate)
- 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)