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Prof. Douglas Allen Email: dallen@maine.edu	Prof. Douglas Allen was a close friend, comrade, collaborator, and peace and justice activist with Ngo Vinh Long starting in 1967. Doug retired in 2020 after 46 years as Professor of Philosophy at University of Maine. He was a leader in the successful struggles against the AID/CIA Vietnam Center at Southern Illinois University where he taught (1967-1972). He specializes in Asian philosophy (Hinduism, Buddhism), comparative philosophy and religion, Mahatma Gandhi, political philosophy (especially Marx), and he worked on the Vietnam/Indochina War (especially with Long). His 18 books include Coming to Terms: Indochina, the United States, and the War, co-edited with Long (1991). For Doug’s CV and other information, see umaine.edu/philosophy/douglas-allen.
Dr. Bùi Văn Đạo Email: buivandao@gmail.com	A friend of Ngô Vĩnh Long.
Prof. Jonathan D. London Email: j.d.london@hum.leidenuniv.nl	Associate Professor of Global Political Economy - Asia at the Leiden Institute of Area Studies.He has previously held positions at the City University of Hong Kong and Nanyang Technological University. London is a leading scholar of contemporary Vietnam. He holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. New book Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Vietnam (2023)
Prof. Sophie Quinn-Judge email: sophie.quinnjudge@gmail.com	Dr. Quinn-Judge is a highly accomplished scholar of Vietnamese history and culture. Dr. Quinn-Judge has received international recognition for her scholarly work on Vietnam, including her highly-regarded book, Ho Chi Minh: The Missing Years (1919-1941), and essays on such topics as the history of women in 20th-century Vietnamese politics. Dr. Quinn-Judge, who is fluent in Vietnamese, spent two years in Vietnam working with a medical voluntary agency and she has made numerous subsequent visits to Vietnam. She has also served as a correspondent on Soviet- Asian affairs for the Far Eastern Economic Review and has contributed to other publications such as the Guardian (London). Dr. Quinn-Judge received her Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London and she was Research Coordinator of the Cold War Studies Programme in the International History Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Prof. Elizabeth McKillen email: mckillen@maine.edu	Prof. McKillen worked with Ngo Vinh Long for thirty years in the History Department at the University of Maine. She taught the history of U.S. foreign relations, U.S. labor history, and recent U.S. history, and often co-chaired M.A. and Ph.D committees with Long that dealt with questions of U.S.-Vietnamese relations. She has written two books and many articles on patterns of collaboration and resistance to U.S. foreign policies within the U.S. labor movement, the U.S. socialist movement, and the Mexican and Irish diasporas. She has served on the steering committees of Historians Against the [Iraq] War and Eastern Maine Labor Council.
Dr. Ngô Thanh Nhàn email: nhan@cs.nyu.edu	Ngô Thanh Nhàn, Ph.D. Linguistics, is a research scholar of the Linguistic String Project at the New York University and a fellow of Nôm Studies and Folk Music Studies at the Center for Vietnamese Philosophy, Culture & Society. Dr. Nhàn is a board member of The Institute for Vietnamese Culture and Education, and Vietnam Agent Orange Relief & Responsibility Campaign. He has been teaching Vietnamese Đàn Tranh Ensemble at Folk Arts – Cultural Treasure Charter School in Philadelphia, and Đàn Tranh Folk Music at Yes We Can Music with Mekong NYC. He is a core member of VietLeft project since 2021. Full bio at https://www.cs.nyu.edu/~nhan.
Nguyễn Bá Chung email: chung.nguyen@umb.edu
Nguyễn Thuỳ An email: an.t.nguyen@maine.edu	An Thuy Nguyen (Nguyễn Thùy An) is a PhD Candidate in History at the University of Maine. Her research focuses include the history of U.S. foreign relations, modern Vietnamese history, women’s history, and gender and peace studies. Her dissertation examines the implications of the Nixon Doctrine in Asia from the perspectives of South Vietnamese urban antiwar movements during the U.S.-Vietnam War. She is the author of a peer-reviewed article in the international journal Critical Asian Studies, two book reviews, a forthcoming book chapter, among other conference papers and newspapers articles. An was the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations’ Marilyn Blatt Young Fellow in 2020 and the Swarthmore College’s Margaret W. Moore and John M. Moore Fellow in 2022. She has been a member of the Board of Advisors for the Traprock Center for Peace and Justice since 2019.
Merle E. Ratner email: merle_ratner@hotmail.com	Merle Ratner is the Co-Coordinator of the Vietnam Agent Orange Relief & Responsibility Campaign, a member of the Viet Left Strategy Project and the Laundry Workers Center. She is a substitute teacher in NYC and is working on her Masters in Labor Studies at CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies.
Dr. Vũ Quang Việt email: viet.vuquang@gmail.com	Viet Vu, a retired UN economist, an anti-war friend of Prof. Ngo Vinh Long since 1970.