Judy Tzu-Chun Wu joined the faculty of Ohio State in 1998. She has a joint appointment with the Department of Women's Studies and also co-coordinates the Asian American Studies Program. She also serves on the board of editors for the
Journal of American History and the
Journal of Women's History.
Professor Wu teaches courses on Modern U.S. History, Asian American History, Women's History, Immigration History, History of Sexuality, History of Comparative Racialization, History of the American West, and the 1960s. She is particularly interested in incorporating new media assignments into her classes.
Her first book, Dr. Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: The Life of a Wartime Celebrity (University of California Press, February 2005), is a biography of Margaret Jessie Chung (1889-1959), the first American-born Chinese female physician. This biography uses Chung's remarkable life to explore the shifting social norms of race, gender, and sexuality from the late Victorian era to the early Cold War period in U.S. society.
Professor Wu also has published a number of articles that examine issues related to racialized notions of beauty and sexuality as well as the significance of western religion and medicine for the lives of Asian American women.
Her current book project, tentatively titled "Radicals on the Road: Third World Internationalism and American Orientalism during the Viet Nam Era," is under contract with Cornell University Press for a series on U.S. and the World that is edited by Mark Bradley and Paul Kramer. This work focuses on the international travels of American antiwar activists during the U.S. War in Viet Nam. It specifically explores how these encounters with Asian culture, politics, and people shaped the radical imaginary of U.S. activists of varying racial, gender, and sexual identifications.
OSU Asian American Studies Web site
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