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Tuan Hoang
Humanities and Teacher Education Division
Pepperdine University
24255 Pacific Coast Highway
Malibu, CA 92804-3252
Email: tuan.hoang@pepperdine.edu

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

Pepperdine University

• Professor of Great Books, 2025-present
• Blanche E. Seaver Professor of Humanities and Teacher Education, 2022-2027
• Associate Professor of Great Books, 2020-2025
• Assistant Professor of Great Books, 2015-2020
• Visiting Assistant Professor of Great Books, 2013-2015

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., History, University of Notre Dame, 2013
  • Dissertation: “Ideology in Urban South Vietnam, 1950-1975”
• M.A., History, University of Notre Dame, 2005
• Graduate courses, History, Catholic University of America, Fall 2001
• B.A., Philosophy, summa cum laude, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, 1991

PUBLICATIONS

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PRESENTATIONS & CONFERENCES

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TEACHING

Pepperdine University

• Asian American History
• Asian Great Books
• Great Books Colloquium I, II, III, and IV (Western texts)
• Great Books Colloquium V (global texts)
• History of the American Peoples
• Western Culture I & III (humanities sequence)

University of California, Riverside

• The Vietnam Conflict, Spring 2009 & Summer 2015

California State University, San Bernardino

• Four courses on Asian history and US history, 2011-2013.

SERVICE TO PEPPERDINE

• Faculty Development Committee, 2025.
• University Academic Council, 2024-2025.
• Director, Great Books Program, 2022-present.
• Tenured mentor, Seaver first-year tenure-track cohort, 2022-2023.
• SEED facilitator, Seaver College, 2019-2022.
• GE Review Committee, 2019-2022.
• Seaver Diversity Council, 2018-2020.
• University Diversity Council, 2018-2019.
• Global Tides (undergraduate journal), HUTE faculty advisor, 2017-present.
• Pre-tenure mentor, Seaver first-year tenure-track cohort, 2017-2018.
• The Interlocutor (HUTE newsletter), Editor, 2016-2020.
• Assessment coordinators, HUTE representative, 2017-2018.
• University Athletic Committee, 2016-2017.
• Seaver Assessment of Learning Team (SALT), 2016-2017.
• GE Learning Innovators (GELI), 2015-2017.

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION & COMMUNITY

• Vietnam Studies Group, Association for Asian Studies, 2018-present.
  • Chair, 2021-present
  • Treasurer, 2018-2021.
• Board of Directors, Association for Core Texts and Courses, 2020-present.
• Executive Council, American Catholic Historical Association, 2022–2025.
• Coordinator, Global Vietnamese Catholicism Project, Initiative for the Study of Asian Catholics (ISAC), National University of Singapore, 2022-2025.
• East Asian Advisory Board, Religion & Public Life Project, Pew Research Center, 2022-2024.
• Research Team, American Refugee Experience Model Curriculum, Orange County Department of Education & Santa Clara County Office of Education, 2022–2023.
• Peer reviewer for journals:
  • Catholic Historical Review
  • Gender, Place and Culture
  • International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies
  • International Quarterly for Asian Studies
  • Journal of Asian Studies
  • Journal of Church and State
  • Journal of Global Catholicism
  • Journal of Vietnamese Studies
  • Journal of Women’s History
  • Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth
  • MST Review
  • Religion and Culture
  • SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia
  • Southeast Asia: A Multidisciplinary Journal 
  • Tạp chí phát triển khoa học và công nghệ
• Peer reviewer for presses:
  • Columbia University Press
  • Cornell University Press
  • Monash Institute Press
  • Springer
• Grant reviewer
  • American Catholic Historical Association
  • U.S. Department of Education
• Program committee member, AAS-in-Asia Conference, Association for Asian Studies.

EDITORIAL POSITIONS

• Associate Editor, Global Vietnam series, Springer, 2022-present.
• Editorial Board, Rising Asia Journal, 2021-present.
• Annual Proceedings Editor, Association for Core Texts and Courses, 2019-present.

MEDIA

• “The Dream of a White Mustang,” AARP Magazine, March 2025.
• Occasional appearances on the program Hội Luận Trong Tuần [Weekly Discussion] to offer a historical perspective on current events, Little Saigon TV (LSTV), 2024-present.
• “Giới thiệu bộ sách của tác giả Nguyễn Mạnh Hùng và nhóm tác giả Vũ Tường & Sean Fear” [Introducing new collections edited by Nguyen Manh Hung and Tuong Vu & Sean Fear], LSTV, May 14, 2022.
• “Why Vietnamese Love to Put Baby Jesus in a Cave at Christmas,” Vietcetera (international edition), December 22, 2021.
• “Changing Stripes,” (podcast), 99% Invisible, October 12, 2021.
• “Looking to Past Military Withdrawal on the Future of Afghanistan,” KQED (NPR), August 31, 2021.
• “U.S. Evacuation in Afghanistan Evoke Memories of Saigon’s Fall,” National Public Radio, August 20, 2021.
• “The Latest TikTok Trend Is… Vietnamese Music about the Countryside?”, Pitchfork, August 5, 2021.
• “Lá cờ VNCH & Cuộc bạo động tại tòa nhà quốc hội Hoa Kỳ” [The flag of the Republic of Vietnam and the riot at the United States Capitol], roundtable, SBTN-TV, January 31, 2021.
• “Về chuyện cờ VNCH ở biểu tình tràn vào Điện Capitol” [On the flag of the Republic of Vietnam at the demonstration spilled into the US Capitol], BBC Vietnamese, January 13, 2021.
• “Annual Vietnamese Tet Festival Features New Fashion Show,” WGBH Boston Public Radio, broadcast on January 24, 2019.

NON-ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

• Interim Community Coordinator, L’Arche Wavecrest Community, Orange, CA, 2012-2013.
• Caterer, Food and Nutrition Department, Northwest Hospital, Seattle, WA, 1999-2001.
• Live-in Assistant & House Leader, L’Arche Noah Sealth Community, Seattle, WA, 1991-1999.