Lan Cao is the Betty Hutton Williams Professor of International Economic Law at Chapman University Fowler School of Law. A graduate of Mount Holyoke College and Yale Law School, she joined Chapman University after more than a decade as the Boyd Fellow and Professor of Law at William & Mary Law School. She has also taught at Brooklyn Law School, Duke Law School, and Michigan Law School. Her teaching and scholarly interests encompass contracts, corporations and business associations, international trade, international business transactions, and public international law.
After law school, she clerked for Judge Constance Baker Motley of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Judge Motley was the first African American woman appointed to the federal courts and a prominent attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. Lan Cao then practiced in the litigation and corporate departments of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York City. She received a Ford Foundation Scholarship to study rule of law development and democracy in emerging economies. Her scholarly publications cover international human rights, women's rights, trade and finance, economic development as conflict prevention, and post-conflict reconstruction. She is the author of several books, including Culture in Law and Development: Nurturing Positive Change (Oxford University Press, 2015), Monkey Bridge (Viking Penguin, 1997), The Lotus and the Storm (Viking Penguin, 2015), and Family in Six Tones (co-authored with Harlan Margaret Van Cao, Viking Penguin, 2020).

Born in 1936 in Bắc Ninh, Việt Nam, Nguyen Van Canh served as an Assistant Dean and Professor at the University of Law in Saigon, where he taught courses on modern international political issues, the strategies of the Vietnamese Communist Party, and comparative law. He also monitored and evaluated graduate students in the Department of Public Law. At the University of Law in Huế, he taught Constitutional Law, and at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Vạn Hạnh University, he covered subjects including General Political Science, Comparative International Political Systems, and International Public Law. Additionally, he lectured at the Command and General Staff College of the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces on the topic of "Vietnamese Communism: Techniques for Consolidating Power" and at the National Defense College on "Vietnamese Communism: Ideology and Implementation Strategies."
In the United States, he has been a scholar at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University and co-directed the Oral Life History Project at the Institute of East Asian Studies at UC Berkeley. He is the author of several books and research articles published in both English and Vietnamese and has participated in numerous international conferences on Vietnam and Southeast Asia.

Tuong Vu is professor of Political Science and director of the US-Vietnam Research Center at the University of Oregon. He has held visiting appointments at Seoul National University, Princeton University and the National University of Singapore, and taught at the Naval Postgraduate School. Vu is the University of Oregon. His research has focused broadly on the comparative politics of state formation, development, and revolutions in East and Southeast Asia, together with studies of Vietnamese nationalism, republicanism, and communism, and Vietnamese American history. He is the author and co-editor of many books and journal articles such as Vietnam’s Communist Revolution (2016), Building a Republican Nation in Vietnam, 1920-1963 (2022), Republican Vietnam, 1963-1975 (2023), Toward a Framework for Vietnamese American Studies (2023).

Alec Holcombe is Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Director of the Contemporary History Institute. His research focuses on the history of Vietnamese Communism, a topic that intersects with a number of interesting broader themes. These include Southeast Asian-focused ones such as the region’s pre-colonial economic, political, and cultural legacies; Western conquest and colonization; the rise of nationalism; decolonization; and post-colonial nation building. These broader themes also include ones related to Marxism and Marxist-inspired movements: the intellectual origins and development of that ideology, the history of the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China, the Cold War, and, of course, Vietnam’s wars fought during the three decades after WWII. He is the author of Mass Mobilization in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 1945-1960 (2020). His current book project examines the making of North Vietnam's 1959 Constitution. He directs Ohio University’s Contemporary History Institute and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Vietnamese Studies. He lives in Athens with his wife, Đỗ Hoàng Điệu, daughter, Asa, and son, Thomas.

Alex-Thái Đình Võ is a historian specializing in modern Vietnam and East and Southeast Asia, with a focus on Cold War politics, the Vietnam Wars, and Vietnamese American history. His research delves into the social, cultural, political, and economic transformations in Vietnam, encompassing topics such as land reform, social-cultural control, reeducation, diaspora, and war legacies and memories. Currently, he serves as an Assistant Research Professor at the Vietnam Center & Archive, Texas Tech University, where he leads the Vietnam War Legacy Project and the Vietnam War Oral History Project. He also sits on the board of the U.S.-Vietnam Center at the University of Oregon and the Vietnamese Heritage Museum. He is the co-editor of Toward a Framework for Vietnamese American Studies (2023). Additionally, he serves as the multimedia editor for the Journal of Vietnamese Studies. Previously, he worked as a historian with the Defense POW/MIA Agency. He holds a Ph.D. in History from Cornell University.

Trong Phan is a retired USAF Chief Engineer for the Personnel Systems Division, with 34 years of service at the Department of Defense. He managed a $10.3 million promotion board automation, led the USAF fitness management program migration, and directed a $500 million technology roadmap for the USAF Human Resources domain. He holds multiple advanced degrees, including a PhD in Applied Management and Decision Science from Walden University. His awards include the USAF Material Command Science and Engineering Career Achievement Award and the USAF Civilian Achievement Medal.
Currently, Trong is the President of the Board of the Vietnamese American Community of the USA, an adjunct teacher and career coach at Dallas College and the University of Texas at Dallas, and a commentator on Radio Saigon and Saigon Broadcast Television Network. He co-founded One Bread, a homeless ministry, and Advocates for Faith and Justice in Vietnam. Trong lives in Texas with his wife, My-Loan, and their three children.

Phi Vân Nguyen is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Science and Humanities of the Université de Saint-Boniface in Winnipeg, Canada. She is a historian specializing in war, migration and religion in modern Vietnam. Her publications have appeared in several disciplinary and area journals, including The Journal of Asian Studies or French Colonial History and her book A Displaced Nation, The 1954 Evacuation and Its Political Impact on the Vietnam Wars, will appear this December 2024 with Cornell University Press.

Dr. Jason A. Picard is the Founding Assistant Professor of Vietnamese History and Culture at VinUniversity in Hanoi. He holds a PhD in History from UC Berkeley and an MA in Asian Studies from Cornell University. Previously, he was a Lecturer at Loyola University Chicago’s Vietnam Center and a Fellow at Vietnam’s National Institute of Literature and Institute of History. His research covers war, migration, social movements, and more, and he is completing a book on the 1954-1955 migration's impact on Vietnam. He is currently completing a book manuscript titled Fragmented Loyalties: How Vietnam’s Great Migration Destabilized a Nation and Altered a War, which examines the impact of the 1954-1955 migration on Vietnam's 20th-century history.
Dr. Picard's interest in Southeast Asian Studies began in 1997 when he became the first American to live in Tây Ninh province since 1975. He has taught English, worked as an interpreter/translator, and consulted for various projects, including those with the Associated Press and Vietnam-American Theater Exchange.

Tuan Hoang is an Associate Professor of Great Books and the Blanche E. Seaver Professor of Humanities and Teacher Education at Pepperdine University, where he teaches in the Great Books and History programs. He grew up in Vietnam and the United States, studied the History of Western Philosophy at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, and earned his PhD in History from the University of Notre Dame. Before academia, he worked as a live-in assistant with adults with intellectual disabilities at L'Arche Seattle. His research centers on twentieth-century Vietnamese history and Vietnamese refugees in the U.S., with notable publications including studies on Vietnamese Marianism, the fall of Saigon, and refugee experiences. Tuan Hoang’s publications include articles such as “‘Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart Will Prevail’: Vietnamese Marianism and Anticommunism, 1940–1975” and “Ultramontanism, Nationalism, and the Fall of Saigon,” as well as book chapters like “The Post-1975 Vietnamese Diaspora” in The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War and “Social Mobility and the Meaning of Freedom among Vietnamese Refugees” in The Vietnamese Diaspora in a Transnational Context. His most recent publication is "The Vietnamese Diaspora" in The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War (Cambridge University Press, 2024). His work explores themes of Vietnamese history, diaspora, and religion.

Trần Huy Bích was born in 1936. In 1954, at the age of 18, he left North Vietnam alone while his family remained in the North. In South Vietnam, he earned a Licentiate of Letters (Cử nhân Văn khoa) and served as an Instructor at the Cultural Department (Văn Hóa Vụ) and of the Vietnamese National Military Academy (trường Võ Bị Quốc Gia Việt Nam) in Đà Lạt. In the United States, he obtained an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. He worked as a Library Specialist and Cataloger, managing Asian Studies and Chinese Studies materials at the University of California, Los Angeles (1989-2001) and the University of Southern California (2002-2007). He has been living in retirement since 2007.