Faculty and Staff

Faculty

Chong Moua, Ph.D

Assistant Professor of Hmong Studies
History
Contact: mouac@uwosh.edu

Her research interests center around the question of how immigration, race, gender, citizenship, and U.S. empire produce discourses of cultural and national belonging in 20th century U.S. history. She teaches several Hmong Studies courses including: Anthropology 103: Introduction to Hmong/American Studies, Hmong Studies 230: Memory and Trauma, and History 210: Vietnam War Culture. She completed her doctorate in the History Department at UW Madison, with a dissertation entitled “Refugee Cosmopolitanism: Hmong Refugees and a Critical Stateless Perspective.”

Choua P. Xiong, Ph.D 

Assistant Professor of Hmong Studies
Anthropology, Global Religions, and Cultures
Contact: xiongc@uwosh.edu

Her research approach is informed by her activism as a motherscholar in Southeast Asian community-based educational spaces, schools, and higher education. She leads various community-based participatory action research (CBPAR) projects that center the perspectives of minoritized communities and the roles they play in educating youth about schooling, political participation, and belonging. She teaches a range of courses in Hmong Studies and Educational Studies that examine displacement, race and racialization, gender, and stateless and non-state community and home-making.

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