Gordon H. Chang

I am interested in several different areas of history, including the historical connections between race and ethnicity in America, on the one hand, and foreign relations, on the other, and trans-Pacific relations in their diplomatic as well as their cultural and social dimensions. I have written and continue to publish in the areas of U.S. diplomacy, America-China relations, the Chinese diaspora, Asian American history, and global history. In 2019, I published my history of Chinese railroad workers in America in the 19th century. In 2025, I published a collection of essays in "War, Race, and Culture: Journeys in Trans-Pacific and Asian American Histories."

I continue to work with undergraduates, master’s students, and doctoral students.