{"id":13609,"date":"2023-04-24T11:20:01","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T11:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usvietnamcenter.uoregon.edu\/?page_id=13609"},"modified":"2026-05-27T03:39:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:39:44","slug":"director-and-staff","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/usvietnamcenter.uoregon.edu\/director-and-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Director and Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"13609\" class=\"elementor elementor-13609\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2fde688c elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-content-middle elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"2fde688c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div 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                          <\/span>            \n                  <\/h1>\n                                    \n                              <\/div>                    \n                      <\/div>                    \n    \t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-64afc71 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"64afc71\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e04e700\" data-id=\"e04e700\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6cb79de elementor-widget 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elementor-element-33ed609\" data-id=\"33ed609\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4b2b75b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4b2b75b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"x_MsoTitle\">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.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2c4ca0c elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"2c4ca0c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Khoi Nguyen, Managing Editor of \u201cUS-Vietnam Review\u201d<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-ffc69ba elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"ffc69ba\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-a506470\" data-id=\"a506470\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-45bb5c3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"45bb5c3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/usvietnamcenter.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/khoi-20x13.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-13629 jl-lazyload lazyload\" alt=\"Khoi Nguyen\" data-src=\"https:\/\/usvietnamcenter.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/khoi.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/usvietnamcenter.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/khoi-20x13.jpg 20w, https:\/\/usvietnamcenter.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/khoi.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-90419ee\" data-id=\"90419ee\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d301c20 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d301c20\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>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 \u201cEarly Republican Concept of the Nation: Tr\u1ea7n Tr\u1ecdng Kim and Vi\u1ec7t Nam S\u1eed L\u01b0\u1ee3c,\u201d in Nu-Anh Tran and Tuong Vu, eds. 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