Director and Staff
Tuong Vu, Director
Tuong Vu is Professor & Department Head at Department of Political Science, University of Oregon. Vu has been on the faculty of the Department of Political Science since 2008. He has held visiting appointments at Princeton University and the National University of Singapore, and has taught at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. Vu’s research concerns the comparative politics of state formation, development, nationalism, and revolutions, with a particular focus on East Asia.
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.
Vinh Phu Pham, Editor of “US-Vietnam Review”
Vinh Phu Pham is a literary scholar with a background in Vietnamese Francophone and nineteenth-century Spanish peninsular literature. He received his BA and MA in Spanish language and literature from Florida Atlantic University, and his Ph.D. in comparative literature from Cornell University. Vinh has taught a variety of courses including Spanish language, travel capitalism, and contemporary art and has published articles relating to Vietnamese literature and culture. Currently he is a visiting lecturer at Fulbright University Vietnam.