Judy Tzu-Chun Wu

Judy Tzu-Chun Wu is a professor of Asian American studies and the director of the Humanities Center at the University of California, Irvine. She specializes in Asian American, immigration, comparative racialization, women's, gender, and sexuality histories. She is the author of Dr. Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: The Life of a Wartime Celebrity (2005), a biography of the first American-born Chinese woman physician, and Radicals on the Road: Internationalism, Orientalism, and Feminism during the Vietnam Era (2013), which examines the international travels of American antiwar activists during the U.S. War in Viet Nam and the political inspiration that decolonizing Asia offered to American radicals. She coedits a book series with Brill Press, Gendering the Trans-Pacific World: Diaspora, Empire, and Race, and its inaugural volume Gendering the Trans-Pacific World (2017). She also coedited Women's America: Refocusing the Past (8th edition, 2015). She is the current coeditor of Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000, a major online resource in U.S. women's history, and the editor for Amerasia Journal, the oldest journey for the field of Asian American Studies. With Gwendolyn Mink, she is currently writing a political biography of Patsy Takemoto Mink, the first woman of color in Congress and the namesake for Title IX.