Publications

Refereed articles

“The Resettlement of Vietnamese Refugee Religious, Priests, and Seminarians in the United States, 1975–1977,” U.S. Catholic Historian 37.3 (Summer 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 (Spring 2019): 1-36.
- Winner, New Scholar Essay Prize for Catholic Studies in the Americas (2020), Curran Center for American Catholic Studies, Fordham University
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“From Reeducation Camps to Little Saigons: Historicizing Vietnamese Diasporic Anticommunism,” Journal of Vietnamese Studies 11.2 (Spring 2016): 43-95.
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“Political, Military, and Cultural Memoirs in Vietnamese on the Republic of Vietnam,” in Tuong Vu and Sean Fear, eds., The Republic of Vietnam, 1955–1975: Vietnamese Perspectives on Nation-Building (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020), 179-188.

“The Vietnamese Side of the ‘American’ War,” in Matthew Masur, John Day Tully, and Brad Austin, eds., Understanding and Teaching the Vietnam War: Essays and Resources (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2013), 223-244.
“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 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), 17-32.

Editor (with Daniel Nuckols), Bridging Divides, Crossing Borders, Community Building: The Human Voice in Core Texts and the Liberal Arts (Dallas: The ACTC Liberal Arts Institute, forthcoming).
- Selected and refereed papers from the 23rd annual conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses (ACTC), Dallas, April 20-23, 2017.
Editor, Tradition and Renewal: Continuity and Change in Core and Liberal Arts Programs (Dallas: The ACTC Liberal Arts Institute, forthcoming).
- Selected and refereed papers from the 22nd annual conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses (ACTC), Atlanta, April 14-17, 2016.

“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).

Review of Ghost Tape #10 (Sean David Christensen, producer, 2018), Journal of Vietnamese Studies, Fall 2019.
Review of Ship of Fate: Memoir of a Vietnamese Repatriate by Trần Đình Trụ and translated by Bac Hoai Tran and Jana K. Lipman, H-Asia, August 2019.
Review of The Control War: The Struggle for South Vietnam, 1968–1975 by Martin G. Clemis, Michigan War Studies Review, March 2019.
Review of “Socialist Internationalism At Work: Changes in the Czechoslovak-Vietnamese Labor Exchange Program, 1967-1989“ by Alena K. Alamgir, Dissertation Reviews, January 2016.
Review of A History of the Vietnamese by K. W. Taylor and Sources of Vietnamese Tradition, edited by George E. Dutton, Jayne S. Werner, and John K. Whitmore, diaCRITICS, December 2015.
Review essay for roundtable The American War in Contemporary Vietnam: Transnational Remembrance and Representation by Christina Schwenkel, H-Diplo, February 2011.
Review of Invisible Enemies: The American War on Vietnam, 1975-2000 by Edwin A. Martini, Journal of Vietnamese Studies, January/February 2011.
Review of At the Water’s Edge: American Politics and the Vietnam War by Melvin Small, H-Diplo, May 2007.
Review of Religion and the Cold War, edited by Dianne Kirby, Cold War History, November 2006.

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: 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).