
About GUAVA
Board Members
2025-2027 Term
Meet the Board Members

Chung Nguyen
Lecturer in Vietnamese/Program Director
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Columbia University
email: cn2496@columbia.edu

Trang Tran
Visiting Lecturer in East Asian Studies
Brown University
email: trang_tran@brown.edu
Previous Board Members1
2021-2024/2025
President | Trần Viết Thúy, Cornell University |
Executive Manager/Secretary | Chung Nguyen, Columbia University |
Newsletter Editor/Webmaster | Huy Phung, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
2019-2021
President | Trần Viết Thúy, Cornell University |
Secretary | Chung Nguyen, Columbia University |
Treasurer | Bich-Ngoc Turner, University of Washington |
2015-2017/2018
President | Trần Viết Thúy, Cornell University |
Vice President | Minh Nguyen, University of California, Riverside |
Treasurer | Mariam Lam , University of California, Riverside |
2010 – 2012
President | Phạm Hòa Andrea, University of Florida |
Vice President | Văn Quang, Yale University |
Vice President | Nguyễn Thúy Anh, University of Michigan |
Treasurer | Trần Viết Thúy, Cornell University |
2007 – 2009
Chair of Academic Affairs | Lê Phạm Thuý-Kim, Arizona State University |
Chair of Administrative Affairs | Phạm Andrea, University of Florida |
Chair of Outreach | Ngô Như Bình, Harvard University |
Treasurer | Nguyễn Kim Oanh, University of Washington |
2003 – 2006
Co-Presidents | Ngô Như Bình, Harvard University and Trần Hoài Bắc, UC-Berkely |
Vice-President | Văn Phú Quang, Yale University |
Secretary | Trần Viết Thúy, Cornell University |
Treasurer | Nguyễn Kim Oanh, University of Washington |
1993-2003
Founding President | Stephen O’Harrow, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
Dr. Stephen O’Harrow is a founder of GUAVA where he was President for the first ten years from the group’s inception in 1993 (source).