Tanika Raychaudhuri is an Assistant Professor at Rice University who specializes in American politics. Her first book, The Social Roots of Asian American Politics (Oxford University Press 2025) uses surveys, experiments, and in-depth interviews to explore how Asian Americans — the fastest growing racial group in the United States — learn about American politics and develop partisan preferences. Her other research explores questions about immigrant political behavior, representation, race, and public policy. She has published her research in Electoral Studies, Perspectives on Politics, the Journal of Politics, and other academic journals. Her work has been recognized through awards from the American Political Science Association (REP Section Best Paper Award 2021) and the Midwest Political Science Association (Lucius Barker Award 2024).