Heather Marie Stur, Ph.D., is professor of history at the University of Southern Mississippi and a senior fellow at the Dale Center for the Study of War & Society. She is the author of four books, including 21 Days to Baghdad: General Buford Blount and the 3rd Infantry Division in the Iraq War (Osprey Publishing 2023), Saigon at War: South Vietnam and the Global Sixties (Cambridge 2020), The U.S. Military and Civil Rights Since World War II (ABC-CLIO 2019), and Beyond Combat: Women and Gender in the Vietnam War Era (Cambridge 2011). Stur’s op-eds and articles have been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, BBC, National Interest, Orange County Register, Diplomatic History, War & Society, and other journals and newspapers. From 2013 to 2014, Stur was a Fulbright scholar in Vietnam, where she was a visiting professor on the Faculty of International Relations at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Saigon.

John-Hòa Nguyễn graduated from Saint Joseph Seminary College in 1981. He taught for a few years then entered the real estate industry and has run his full-service brokerage firm since 1987. John-Hòa has a special interest in helping the younger generations assimilate into the mainstream while retaining their identity. In 1978, with the late Rev Joseph Phạm Văn Tuệ, he formed the Thiếu Nhi Việt Nam (Vietnamese Youth Group) and, later, Trái Tim Việt Nam (The Vietnamese Spirit). Besides being active in the Vietnamese American community, John-Hòa has worked with and volunteered for various nonprofits and agencies, including the Council on Aging, AARP’s Diversified Ethnic Division, the Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation, the American Red Cross, FEMA’s disaster division, and others.

Mark Cave is Senior Historian at the Historic New Orleans Collection (HNOC). He created the oral history program at HNOC and developed oral history responses following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, and the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. He has also created the New Orleans Life Story Project and other smaller thematic projects, including Viet Chronicle. Mark is the curator for HNOC’s 2025 exhibition, Making It Home: From Vietnam to New Orleans. He is a past President of the International Oral History Association and is coeditor of Listening on the Edge: Oral History in the Aftermath of Crisis (Oxford 2014); Oral History and the Environment: Global Perspectives on Climate, Connection, and Catastrophe (Oxford 2022); and The Global Handbook of Oral History (Brill 2025).