William S. Turley

William S. Turley (PhD, University of Washington) was born in Wallace, Idaho and grew up in Washington state. During his graduate studies in political science at the University of Washington, Seattle, he studied in Vietnam in 1967-68. He earned his PhD in 1972 with a dissertation on the Vietnam People's Army, was a Ford Foundation Research Associate at Saigon University in 1972-1973, and taught at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok in 1982-1984 as a Fulbright lecturer. Now professor emeritus at Southern Illinois University, he has published widely on Vietnamese politics, international relations, and economic policy reform.