Tuong Vu, Director
Tuong Vu is professor of Political Science and founding director of the US-Vietnam Research Center at the University of Oregon. He has held visiting appointments at Seoul National University and Princeton University and taught at the Naval Postgraduate School. His research has focused broadly on the comparative politics of state formation, development, and revolutions in East and Southeast Asia, together with Vietnamese nationalism, republicanism, and communism, and Vietnamese American history. He is the author and co-editor of 10 books and numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. Vu serves on the editorial boards of several journals and is frequently consulted by national and international media.
Khoi Nguyen, Managing Editor of “US-Vietnam Review”
Nguyen Luong Hai Khoi received his Ph.D. from Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan in 2014 and has been a research fellow at Hiroshima University (2015) and Johns Hopkins University (2017). He taught at Ho Chi Minh City University of Education for more than a decade until 2018, and is currently a research fellow at the US-Vietnam Research Center and the Managing Editor of the US Vietnam Review published online by the Center. His writings focus on Vietnamese politics, society and economy, Vietnamese republicanism, and the South China Sea disputes. His most recent publication is “Early Republican Concept of the Nation: Trần Trọng Kim and Việt Nam Sử Lược,” in Nu-Anh Tran and Tuong Vu, eds. Building a Republican Nation in Vietnam, 1920-1963 (Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute and University of Hawaii Press, 2023), 43-60.