Prof TSENG-PUTTERMAN, Mark

Ph.D., Brown University, 2024 

Books
Asian America Rising: New Directions in Asian American Activism. New York University, 2025, co-edited with Diane Wong. 

Articles
“Wiring the ‘New West’: Media Infrastructure, Imperial Sovereignty, and the American Pacific Cable, 1870–1903,” Global Nineteenth-Century Studies, no. 5 (1), pp. 73–95.

“Claiming America, Brokering Empire: The Japanese American Citizens League and the US-Japan Security Relationship, 1950-1972,” Pacific Historical Review 94, no. 3 (2025): 409-440.

“Why an Asian War?” How US Foreign Policy Has Shaped Asian American Politics,” in The American Mosaic: The Asian American Experience, ABC-CLIO, 2023.

“The Geopolitics of Anti-Asian Violence: Cold War Contradictions of Building Back Better,” Journal of Asian American Studies 25, no. 3 (October 2022), 411-430 (co-authored with Minju Bae).

“‘Scattered Like Sand’: WeChat Warriors in the Trial of Peter Liang,” Amerasia Journal 45, no.2 (May 2019): 238–52 (co-authored with Yuanyuan Feng).  

Book Review

“Making Race through War: Militarism and Liberalism in Cold War Asia,” American Quarterly 74, no. 2 (June 2022), 429-440. 

“A Democratic Revolution? Filipino Nationalisms Between Settler Multiculturalism and Martial Law,” Association of Asian American Studies, 2026 (paper presentation).

“The War at Home: Asian American Internationalism and the Political Economy of Empire,” Marxism and Asian American Studies Symposium, University of California, Berkeley, 2025 (paper presentation).

“Global Asias and Diplomatic History,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2025 (roundtable).

“The Local and Global Politics of Asian American Internationalism,” Global Asias Working Group, University of Pennsylvania, 2025 (paper presentation). 
 
“Rethinking Asian American Internationalism,” Association of Asian American Studies Conference, 2025 (discussant and moderator).

“From Behind the Bamboo Curtain: Cold War Material Culture in Chinatown, USA,” Association of Asian American Studies Conference, 2025 (paper presentation).

“From Martial Law to Multiculturalism: Filipino American Internationalism and the Hawaiʻi-Philippines ‘Special Relationship’,” American Historical Association, 2025 (paper presentation).

“At The Vanguard of Friendship: Chinese Americans and the Movement for U.S.-China Normalization,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2024 (paper presentation).  

“San Francisco Grows on War: Anti-Imperialist Geographies of an Asian War,” American Studies Association, 2023 (paper presentation).

“Wiring the “New West”: The American Pacific Cable as Imperial Sovereignty, 1875-1903.” Organization of American Historians, 2023 (paper presentation).

“Asian America Rising: New Directions in Asian American Activism,” Association of Asian American Studies, 2023 (roundtable chair).

“Grassroots Diplomacy in the Age of Revolution: Chinese American Campaigns for US-China Normalization,” Association of Asian American Studies Conference, 2023 (paper presentation).

“New Directions in Asian American Activism,” American Studies Association Conference, 2022 (roundtable chair).

“Dimensions of Violence, Resistance and Becoming: Asian Americans and the ‘Opening’ of the COVID-era,” Association of Asian American Studies, 2022 (roundtable discussant).

“‘Make Closer the Union Begun by Annexation’: The Pacific Cable as Transpacific Network, 1898-1903,” Association of Asian American Studies, 2022 (paper presentation).

“China’s Black Mirror: Orientalism and Cultures of Surveillance,” American Studies Association, 2021 (paper presentation).

“Towards Inscrutability: Theorizing ‘Oriental’ Obfuscation Under Imperial Acts of Looking,” American Studies Association, 2019 (paper presentation).

“‘Jail Today Is a School for Revolution’: The Prison in the Asian American Movement Imagination,” Association for Asian American Studies, 2019 (paper presentation).

“‘Scattered Like Sand’: Peter Liang, Hashtag Activism, and the Politics of Asian American Invisibility,” Association of Asian American Studies, 2018 (paper presentation).

“Transnational Chinese Politics in the Era of Exclusion: A Partial Biography of Lawrence Klindt Kentwell,” Critical Mixed Race Studies, 2017 (paper presentation).