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Pei-te Lien, UC Santa Barbara

Professor of Political Science and faculty affiliate of Asian American Studies, Feminist Studies, and Black Studies,
Political Science
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Pei-te Lien is a professor of Political Science affiliated with Asian American Studies, Feminist Studies, and Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her primary research interest is the political participation and representation of Asian and other nonwhite Americans. Most of her recent work examines the intersection of race, ethnicity, gender, and nativity in political behavior, both of the elites and the mass. In addition to numerous journal articles and book chapters, Lien has (co)authored and co-edited eight books. She is a co-principal investigator of the Gender and Multicultural Leadership (GMCL) project http://www.gmcl.org and a co-author of Contested Transformation: Race, Gender, and Political Leadership in 21st Century America (Cambridge UP, 2016), which won the 2017 Distinguished Career Book Award from the American Political science Association (APSA) Section on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics. The dataset is available online as ICPSR Study No. 36826. The Politics of Asian Americans: Diversity and Community (Routledge, 2004), coauthored with M. Margaret Conway and Janelle Wong, is based on her National Science Foundation-sponsored Pilot National Asian American Political Survey (SES-9973435). The dataset is available online as ICPSR Study No. 3832. Lien is the 2023 recipient of the Don T. Nakanishi Award for Distinguished Scholarship and Service in Asian Pacific American Politics, the Western Political Science Association. The award was made in part to the publication of her latest book Contending the Last Frontier: Race, Gender, Ethnicity, and Political Representation of Asian Americans (Oxford UP, 2022), coauthored with her former student Nicole Filler.

Email: plien@polsci.ucsb.edu
Website: https://polsci.ucsb.edu/people/pei-te-lien
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/pei-te-lien-0285b379

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