Department of History

Personal Statement:

Broadly, my research explores the racialization of Asian diasporas across the Anglophone transpacific settler colonies—CANZUS (Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States)—since the mid-nineteenth century. My particular point of departure is the relationship between “Asian Australia” and “Asian America,” a consideration of which challenges and expands the purported transnational bounds of Asian American theory. I am a co-convenor of the Asian/American Studies Collective at UCSB. 

Selected Publications:

Wang, Tandee, Review of Australianama: the South Asian Odyssey in Australia, by Samia Khatun, Australian Aboriginal Studies 2021, no. 1 (2021): 72–74. 

Wang, Tandee, and Thomas J. Rogers. “Bushman or Boer – Australian Identity in a ‘White Man’s War’, 1899–1902.” British Journal of Military History 7, no. 2 (2021): 64–86.

Wang, Tandee. “‘O Sin, Sin, What Hast Thou Done!’: Aboriginal People and Convicts in Evangelical Humanitarian Discourse in the Australian Colonies, 1830-1850.” ANU Historical Journal II 1 (2019): 157­–178.

Courses Taught:

Introduction to Asian American Literature (ASAM5) – Fall 2022
Chinese Civilization (HISTW80) – Summer 2022

Awards & Professional Activities:

Fulbright Scholarship (W.G. Walker), Australian-American Fulbright Commission, 2021–22
University Medal, Australian National University, 2020