Mark Tseng-Putterman will continue work on his manuscript-in-progress, “Cold War Diaspora: Asian American Internationalism and the Geopolitics of Belonging.” Through a comparative study of Chinese, Filipino, and Japanese American engagements with US foreign policy in their countries of ancestry, the project traces how persisting diasporic attachments complicated the project of Asian American inclusion in an era of US imperial ascendance. 

Mark Tseng-Putterman is a historian of US imperialism and Asian American community politics, with interests in transnational social movements, grassroots diplomacy, and urban geopolitics. His academic and general audience writing has been published in venues such as The Atlantic, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Pacific Historical Review. With Diane Wong, he is the coeditor of Asian America Rising: New Directions for Political Activism (NYU Press, 2025). He earned his PhD in American Studies from Brown University in 2024 and is currently an American Council of Learned Societies Leading Edge Fellow.