Dr. Trương Bửu Lâm is a retired professor of history. He earned his doctorate in History from the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium). In 1957, he began working for the Viện Khảo Cổ [Institute of Archaeology(?)] of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Vietnam. At the same time, he concurrently taught history at the Universities of Saigon and Huế, and French and Latin at the University of Dalat. In 1964, a fellowship enabled him to continue his studies in several American universities until he obtained a teaching position at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. In 1971 he accepted a position at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where he taught Southeast Asian History until his retirement in 2001.