Tuan Hoang
Division of Humanities and Teacher Education (HUTE)
Seaver College
Pepperdine University
24255 Pacific Coast Highway
Malibu, CA 92804-3252

Office: CAC 100A
Phone: 310-506-4145
Email: tuan.hoang@pepperdine.edu

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D., History, University of Notre Dame
  • M.A., History, University of Notre Dame
  • History graduate courses, Catholic University of America
  • B.A., Philosophy, summa cum laude, St. Mary’s University of Minnesota

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

  • Pepperdine University
    • Associate Professor of Great Books, 2020-present
    • Assistant Professor of Great Books, 2015-present
    • Visiting Assistant Professor of Great Books, 2013-2015
  • California State University San Bernardino, Palm Desert Campus
    • Adjunct Lecturer, Department of History, 2011-2013
  • University of California, Riverside
    • Adjunct Lecturer, Department of History, 2009-2011 & 2015 (summer)
    • Visiting Scholar, Department of History, 2008-2009
  • University of Notre Dame
    • Instructor of Record, Department of History and the Writing Program, 2007-2008
    • Instructor of Record, Department of History, Summer 2006
    • Teaching Assistant, Department of History, 2003-2005

PUBLICATIONS

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PRESENTATIONS & CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

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TEACHING

  • Pepperdine University
    • Great Books I, II, III, and IV
    • History of the American People
    • Asian American History (undergraduate & graduate courses)
    • Western Culture I
    • First-Year Seminar: Asian Immigrants in America
    • First-Year Seminar: Faith & Reason
    • The Vietnam Conflict (directed study)
    • The Global Cold War (directed study)
  • California State University San Bernardino, Palm Desert Campus
    • Foreign Relations of the United States
    • The Vietnam Conflict
    • U.S. History, 1945-1980
    • East Asia Since World War II
  • University of California, Riverside
    • The Vietnam Wars
  •  University of Notre Dame
    • The Vietnam War
    • The U.S. in the 1960s
    • First-Year Composition

SERVICE TO INSTITUTIONS (Pepperdine University unless indicated otherwise)

  • 2019-present – SEED facilitator, Seaver College
  • 2019-present – GE Review Committee
  • 2018-2020 – Seaver Diversity Council
  • 2018-2019 – University Diversity Council
  • 2017-present – HUTE division faculty advisor, Global Tides
  • 2017-2018 – Pre-tenure mentor, Seaver first-year tenure-track
  • 2017 (January) – Thomas P. Johnson Visiting Scholar, Rollins College
  • 2016-2020 – Faculty editor, HUTE division newsletter The Interlocutor
  • 2017-2018 – HUTE representative of assessment coordinators, Office of Institutional Effectiveness
  • 2016-2017 – University Athletic Committee 
  • 2016-2017 – Seaver Assessment of Learning Team (SALT)
  • 2015-2017 – Team of General Education Learning Innovators (GELI)
  • 2013-2000 – Faculty liaison among the Great Books Program, Project Serve, and L’Arche Seattle
  • 2006-2007 – Graduate member, Search committee for South Asianist position, Department of History, University of Notre Dame

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

  • 2021-present, Editorial board member, Rising Asia
  • 2020-present, Board member, Association for Core Texts and Courses
  • 2019-present, Annual proceedings editor, Association for Core Texts and Courses
  • 2018-present, Treasurer, Vietnam Studies Group
  • 2008-present, Referee for the journal Gender, Place and Culture; Journal of Vietnamese Studies; Journal of Women’s History; Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth; SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia; and the Monash Asia Institute Press

ACADEMIC MEMBERSHIP

  • Association for Asian Studies
  • Association for Core Texts and Courses
  • Vietnam Studies Group

NON-ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

  • 2012-2013 – Interim Community Coordinator, L’Arche Wavecrest Community, Orange, CA
  • 1999-2001 – Caterer, Food and Nutrition Department, Northwest Hospital, Seattle, WA
  • 1991-1999 – Live-in assistant & house leader, L’Arche Noah Sealth Community, Seattle, WA