Henry Cheng is a PhD candidate in History at Cornell University (ABD, 2025), where his research examines Cold War afterlives, postsocialist reinventions, and Asian American politics across labor, law, and memory. His work traces how Maoist discourses, mnemonic governance, and racialized citizenship travel between the PRC and U.S. urban organizing, using archival, ethnographic, and discourse-analytic methods. He has forthcoming pieces on Chinese evangelical politics, PRC anti-separatist cinema, and transnational gendered nationalism. At Cornell he has taught in Asian American history, ethics and environment, and U.S. 1960s–70s social movements, and his fellowship support includes the Racial Justice and Equitable Futures Fellowship and the Reppy Graduate Fellowship.