Refereed journal articles
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“‘Blind, Lame, Chipped, Cracked, Neutered’: The Protests of Disabled Veterans in the Republic of Vietnam during the Early 1970s” (2025)
“Lost, Mourned, and Retrieved: Exilic Nostalgia in the Music of Vietnamese Refugees” (2024)
“‘Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart Will Prevail’: Vietnamese Marianism and Anticommunism, 1940-1975” (2022)
“The Resettlement of Vietnamese Refugee Religious, Priests, and Seminarians in the United States, 1975–1977” (2019)
“Ultramontanism, Nationalism, and the Fall of Saigon:Historicizing the Vietnamese American Catholic Experience“ (2019)
Winner, 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” (2016)
Book chapters
“Postcolonial Catholicism in South Vietnam, 1954–1975”
“The Exilic Identity of Vietnamese Catholics in the United States”
In A History of Vietnamese Christianity: Encounters and Emerging Horizons, eds., Anh Q. Tran, SJ and Tuan Hoang. Brill, 2026.
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“New Money, New Love, New Men: Naval Officers in Persuasion” (2025)
“Conciliar, Postconciliar, and Postcolonial: Vatican II, Paul VI, and the Church in South Vietnam” (2025)
“The Vietnamese Diaspora” (2024)
“Pray the Rosary and Do Apostolic Work: The Catholic Associational Culture in South Vietnam and the Diaspora” (2023)
“The August Revolution, the Fall of Saigon, and Postwar Reeducation Camps: Understanding Vietnamese Diasporic Anticommunism” (2023)
“Introduction to ‘The Peace Prayer of St. Francis’” (2022)
“Social Mobility and the Meaning of Freedom among Vietnamese Refugees and Immigrants” (2022)
“Political, Military, and Cultural Memoirs in Vietnamese on the Republic of Vietnam” (2020)
“The Vietnamese Sides of the ‘American’ War” (2013)
“The Early South Vietnamese Critique of Communism” (2009)
Edited works
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Anh Q. Tran, SJ and Tuan Hoang, eds. A History of Vietnamese Christianity: Encounters and Emerging Horizons. Brill, 2026.
Tuan Hoang, et al., eds.Crisis and Consolation: Liberal Education in the Time of COVID-19. Association for Core Texts and Courses & ACTC Liberal Arts Institute, 2025.
Tuan Hoang, et al., eds. Reading by Starlight: Core Texts from Confucius to Zadie Smith. Association for Core Texts and Courses & ACTC Liberal Arts Institute, 2025.
Tuan Hoang, guest editor, Rising Asia Journal 4.3 (Autumn 2024), Special Issue on Postwar Music in Vietnam and the Diaspora
Tuan Hoang, guest editor, Journal of Vietnamese Studies, Special Issue on Vietnamese Catholicism 17.2-3 (2022)
Tuan Hoang and Daniel Nuckols, eds. Bridging Divides, Crossing Borders, Community Building: The Human Voice in Core Texts and the Liberal Arts. Association for Core Texts and Courses & Liberal Arts Institute, 2021.
Tuan Hoang, ed. Tradition and Renewal: Continuity and Change in Core and Liberal Arts Programs. Association for Core Texts and Courses & ACTC Liberal Arts Institute, 2021.
Research commentary
“The South Vietnamese Flag and Shifting Representations of the Vietnamese American Experience” (2021)
Reviews
- Review of The Architect of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization (2024) by Kevin D. Pham, Southeast Asian Studies (Kyoto University), forthcoming.
- Review of A Displaced Nation: The 1954 Evacuation and Its Political Impact on the Vietnam Wars (2024) by Phi-Van Nguyen, American Historical Review, March 2026.
- Review of Routledge Handbook of the Vietnamese Diaspora (2024), edited by Nathalie Huỳnh Châu Nguyễn, Journal of Vietnamese Studies, Winter 2026.
- Review of Between War and the State: Civil Society in South Vietnam, 1954–1975 (2023) by Van Nguyen-Marshall, Roundtable Review, H-Diplo|RJISSF, May 2025.
- Review of Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis (2022) by John T. McGreevy, Review Essay Forum, Catholic Historical Review, Summer 2024.
- Review of The First Vietnam War: Violence, Sovereignty, and the Fracture of the South, 1945-1956 (2021) by Shawn McHale, H-War, April 2024.
- Review of The Border Within: Vietnamese Immigrants Transforming Ethnic Nationalism in Berlin (2022) by Phi Hong Su, Journal of Vietnamese Studies, Fall 2023.
- Review of In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Repatriates (2020) by Jana K. Lipman, SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, July 2022.
- Review of Honorable Exit: How a Few Brave Americans Risked All to Save Our Vietnamese Allies at the End of the Vietnam War (2019) by Thurston Clarke, Michigan War Studies Review, June 2022.
- Review of Pure Land in the Making: Vietnamese Buddhism in the US Gulf South (2021) by Allison Truitt, PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, March 2022.
- Review of Television in Post-Reform Vietnam: Nation, Media, Market (2019) by Giang Nguyen-Thu, Journal of Asian Studies, February 2021.
- Review of Ghost Tape #10 (2018), produced by Sean David Christensen,Journal of Vietnamese Studies, Fall 2019.
- Review of Ship of Fate: Memoir of a Vietnamese Repatriate (2017) by Trần Đình Trụ (translated by Hoài Bắc Trần and Jana K. Lipman), H-Net, August 2019.
- Review of The Control War: The Struggle for South Vietnam, 1968–1975 (2018) by Martin G. Clemis, Michigan War Studies Review, March 2019.
- Reviewof “Socialist Internationalism At Work: Changes in the Czechoslovak-Vietnamese Labor Exchange Program, 1967–1989” (2014) by Alena K. Alamgir, Dissertation Reviews, January 2016.
- Reviewof A History of the Vietnamese(2013) by K.W. Taylor; and Sources of Vietnamese Tradition (2012), edited by George E. Dutton, Jayne S. Werner, and John K. Whitmore, diaCRITICS, December 2015.
- Reviewof The American War in Contemporary Vietnam: Transnational Remembrance and Representation (2009) by Christina Schwenkel, H-Diplo, February 2011.
- Review of Invisible Enemies: The American War on Vietnam, 1975–2000 (2007) by Edwin A. Martini,Journal of Vietnamese Studies, January/February 2011.
- Reviewof At the Water’s Edge: American Politics and the Vietnam War (2005) by Melvin Small,H-Diplo, May 2007.
- Review of Religion and the Cold War (2003), edited by Dianne Kirby,Cold War History, November 2006.
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 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 Tidewas 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 bookstaught in my courses Great Books III and IV.
- Until September 2018,Việt Tidewas 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 bookstaught 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.
- 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).
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