About Us

The US-Vietnam Research Center was founded in 2019 and is an independent, non-partisan research institution based at the University of Oregon in Eugene, OR. Our central mission is to promote research and education on contemporary Vietnam, US-Vietnam relations, and the Vietnamese American community. We seek to engage the public and the expert community in the US, Vietnam, and elsewhere through research, publications, and conferences.

In collaboration with our partners such as the University of California at Berkeley, the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore, and the U.S. Institute of Peace, the Center has organized international conferences and symposiums, panels at major professional conferences in the US, academic webinars, and community dialogues across the country. Our conferences were well-attended by scholars from Vietnam besides those from the US and the world, and our symposia were attended by hundreds of Vietnamese American community leaders and members.

The Center has published many scholarly edited volumes, whose contributors include many Vietnamese scholars based in Vietnam. 

We also publish 2 journals, Tạp Chí Nghiên Cứu Việt-Mỹ  and US-Vietnam Review  that regularly feature short articles in Vietnamese and English in the forms of research notes, analyses of current affairs, interviews with scholars and community leaders, and reports on source materials.

We have also provided financial and institutional support for doctoral students from Vietnam to study political science at the University of Oregon, postdoctoral and visiting fellows from Vietnam, and postdoctoral fellows who are Vietnamese Americans.