My research explores the transnational genealogies and consequences of Asian racial form within the Anglophone settler colonies of the transpacific—the so-called “CANZUS” countries (Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the U.S.)—with a particular focus on “Asian Australia.” Based in the period from the 1960s (the end of immigration exclusion) to the present, my work attempts to understand Asian racialization within a broader context of Cold War geopolitics and linked Anglophone and Asian (sub-)imperialism in the Asia Pacific.
I am a co-convenor of the Asian/American Studies Collective at UCSB which coordinates interdisciplinary programming for graduate students working in Asian American studies.
Wang, Tandee. “At the Gate to Australia’s Tiananmen Peace: Asian Racialization and Australia’s Tiananmen Chinese,” Ethnic and Racial Studies (2024).
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.
Review of the boba show: history, diaspora, & a third space, Chinese American Museum, Los Angeles, curated by Juily Phun and Jason Pereira, February 10, 2023–January 7, 2024, in The Public Historian 46, no. 2 (2024): 148–153.
Instructor of Record
History of the Pacific (HIST189E) – Summer 2024
Teaching Assistant
Introduction to Asian American Gender and Sexuality (ASAM8) – Spring 2025
Race and Resistance (ASAM9) – Winter 2025
American Migrations since 1965 (ASAM2) – Fall 2024
Introduction to Asian American Gender and Sexuality (ASAM8) – Spring 2024
American Migrations since 1965 (ASAM2) – Fall 2023
World History, 1000CE–1700CE (HIST2B) – Summer 2023
Asian American History (ASAM1) – Summer 2023
Introduction to Asian American Gender and Sexuality (ASAM8) – Spring 2023
Introduction to Asian American Literature (ASAM5) – Fall 2022
Chinese Civilization (HISTW80) – Summer 2022
National Library of Australia Scholarship, 2024
Fulbright Scholarship (W.G. Walker), Australian-American Fulbright Commission, 2021–22
University Medal, Australian National University, 2020