User:Kenirwin/Chia Youyee Vang

Chia Youyee Vang is a Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her research and writing deal the the Hmong diaspora other Southeast Asian diasporas and refugees.

Vang is the author of the books Hmong in Minnesota and Hmong America : reconstructing community in diaspora. She is also the co-editor of Claiming Place: On the Agency of Hmong Women. Hmong in America has been described as "the first scholarly examination of the Hmong experience in the U.S."

Biography
Vang was born in Laos; she was displaced by the Vietnam War and resettled in Saint Paul, Minnesota as a child. She received a bachelor's degree from Gustavus Adolphus College (1994), and a master's degree (1996) and Ph.D. (2006) from the University of Minnesota. She began teaching at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2006. There, she established an interdisciplinary Hmong Diaspora Studies program, of which she is the director. She is now a full professor and the university's Associate Vice Chancellor for Global Inclusion and Engagement.

Vang is married to Tong Yang; they have two sons.

Awards received

 * Hmong Woman of the Year Award (2010)
 * University of Wisconsin Regents' Diversity Award (2016)
 * University of Wisconsin System Outstanding Woman of Color in Education Award (2014)