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Refereed journal articles

• “‘Blind, Lame, Chipped, Cracked, Neutered’: The Protests of Disabled Veterans in the Republic of Vietnam during the Early 1970s.” The Historian 87.1 (2025): 66-86
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• “Lost, Mourned, and Retrieved: Exilic Nostalgia in the Music of Vietnamese Refugees.” Rising Asia Journal 4.3 (2024): 635-679.
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  • I guest-edited this special issue; read the introduction online or PDF.
• “‘Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart Will Prevail’: Vietnamese Marianism and Anticommunism, 1940-1975.” Journal of Vietnamese Studies 17.2-3 (2022): 126-157.
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  • I guest-edited and introduced this special issue.
• “The Resettlement of Vietnamese Refugee Religious, Priests, and Seminarians in the United States, 1975–1977.” U.S. Catholic Historian 37.3 (2019): 99-122.
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• “Ultramontanism, Nationalism, and the Fall of Saigon: Historicizing the Vietnamese American Catholic Experience.” American Catholic Studies 130.1 (2019): 1-36.
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  • Winner of the inaugural New Scholar Essay Prize for Catholic Studies in the Americas, Curran Center for American Catholic Studies, Fordham University, 2020.
• “From Reeducation Camps to Little Saigons: Historicizing Vietnamese Diasporic Anticommunism.” Journal of Vietnamese Studies 11.2 (2016): 43-95. 
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Book chapters

** externally refereed

• ** “New Money, New Love, New Men: Naval Officers in Persuasion.” In Reading by Starlight: Core Texts from Confucius to Zadie Smith, edited by Tuan Hoang, et al. Association for Core Texts and Courses & Liberal Arts Institute, 2025. Pp. 151-161.
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• “Conciliar, Postconciliar, and Postcolonial: Vatican II, Paul VI, and the Church in South Vietnam.” In The Legacy and Limits of Vatican II in an Age of Crisis, edited by Catherine E. Clifford, et al. Liturgical Press, 2025. Pp. 201-218.
• “The Vietnamese Diaspora.” In The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War, Volume 3: Endings and Aftermaths, edited by Pierre Asselin and Lien-Hang Nguyen. Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 496-515.
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• ** “Pray the Rosary and Do Apostolic Work: The Catholic Associational Culture in South Vietnam and the Diaspora.” In Republican Vietnam 1963-1975: War, Society, Diaspora, edited by Trinh Luu and Tuong Vu. University of Hawai’i Press, 2023. Pp. 189-202.
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• ** “The August Revolution, the Fall of Saigon, and Postwar Reeducation Camps: Understanding Vietnamese Diasporic Anticommunism.” In Toward a Framework for Vietnamese American Studies: History, Community, and Memory, edited by Linda Ho Peché, Alex-Thai D. Vo and Tuong Vu. Temple University Press, 2023. Pp. 76-94.
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• “Introduction to ‘The Peace Prayer of St. Francis’,” in Learning the Good Life: Wisdom from the Great Hearts and Minds That Came Before, edited by Jessica Hooten Wilson and Jacob Stratman. Zondervan Academic, 2022. Pp. 89-91.
• “Social Mobility and the Meaning of Freedom among Vietnamese Refugees and Immigrants.” In The Vietnamese Diaspora in a Transnational Context: Contested Spaces, Contested Narratives, edited by Victor Satzewich and Anna Vu. Brill, 2022. Pp. 30-41.
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• ** “Political, Military, and Cultural Memoirs in Vietnamese on the Republic of Vietnam.” In The Republic of Vietnam, 1955–1975: Vietnamese Perspectives on Nation-Building, edited by Tuong Vu and Sean Fear. Southeast Asia Program Publications, Cornell University Press, 2020. Pp. 179-188.
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• “The Vietnamese Side of the ‘American’ War.” In Understanding and Teaching the Vietnam War: Essays and Resources, eds., Matthew Masur, John Day Tully, and Brad Austin. University of Wisconsin Press, 2013. Pp. 223-244.
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• ** “The Early South Vietnamese Critique of Communism.” In Tuong Vu and Wasana Wongsurawat, eds., Dynamics of the Cold War in Asia: Ideology, Identity, and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Pp. 17-32.
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Research commentary

• “The South Vietnamese Flag and Shifting Representations of the Vietnamese American Experience.” Rising Asia Journal 1.2 (Summer 2021): 224-233.
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Special issues

• Guest editor, Rising Asia Journal 4.3 (2024), special issue on postwar music in Vietnam and the diaspora.
• Guest editor, Journal of Vietnamese Studies 17.2-3 (2022), special issue on Vietnamese Catholicism.

Edited volumes for ACTC

• Place Matters: Core Texts on the Substance of Place in the Humanities. Mercer University Press, in press.
• [With Jay Lutz, et al.] Crisis and Consolation: Liberal Education in the Time of COVID-19. Association for Core Texts and Courses & ACTC Liberal Arts Institute, 2025.
• [With Michael Dink, et al.] Reading by Starlight: Core Texts from Confucius to Zadie Smith. Association for Core Texts and Courses & ACTC Liberal Arts Institute, 2025.
• Tradition and Renewal: Continuity and Change in Core and Liberal Arts Programs. Association for Core Texts and Courses & ACTC Liberal Arts Institute, 2021.
• [With Daniel Nuckols] Bridging Divides, Crossing Borders, Community Building: The Human Voice in Core Texts and the Liberal Arts. Association for Core Texts and Courses & ACTC Liberal Arts Institute, 2021.

Reviews

Entries

• “Vuong Hong Sen,” in Southeast Asian Personalities of Chinese Descent: A Biographical Dictionary (Singapore: Center for Chinese Studies, Nanyang Technological University, 2012).
• “Ngo Dinh Diem,” “Vo Nguyen Giap,” and “17th Parallel” in The Encyclopedia of the Nineteen Sixties: A Decade of Culture and Counterculture (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2011).
• “South Vietnam,” in The World History Encyclopedia (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2011). 

Publications in non-academic venues

• “South Vietnam’s Flags at the Capitol Riot,” Asia Sentinel (January 9, 2021). Vietnamese translation (by Jackhammer Nguyễn): “Cờ miền Nam Việt Nam trong cuộc bạo động ở Điện Capitol,” Tiếng Dân (January 10, 2021).
• The column “Tác Phẩm Kinh Điển” [Great Books], Việt Tide, September 2016 to July 2017. 
  • Until September 2018, Việt Tide was a Vietnamese-language weekly published in Westminster, California, and distributed throughout the U.S.  During the academic year 2016-2017, I contributed a monthly column on the books taught in my courses Great Books III and IV.
• “Từ Thế Kỷ Di Dân tới Nước Mỹ Ngày Nay” [From the Century of Immigration to America Today], Việt Báo Tết Bính Thân [Viet Bao: Year of the Monkey], January 2016, pp. 135-138. 
  • This is the 2016 annual lunar new year’s publication of Việt Báo, an ethnic newspaper in Westminster, California.
• “Nguyễn Hiến Lê và không khí của văn hóa VNCH” [The Writer Nguyen Hien Le and the Cultural Milieu of the Republic of Vietnam], BBC Vietnamese (January 18, 2012).
• “Nhạc trẻ Sài Gòn và văn hóa thành thị Việt Nam” [Youth Music in Saigon and Vietnamese Urban Culture], BBC Vietnamese (May 5, 2009).