Articles

 

• "Researching, Advising, and Teaching During Precarious Times: Insights from a Racial Equity in STEM Education Research Project." ADVANCE Journal 7, no. 2 (2026): 1-27. (Co-authored with Matthew Wolfgram, Bailey B. Smolarek, Stacey J. Lee, Choua P. Xiong, Chundou Her, and Mai Neng Vang)

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• "STEM Pushout of HMoob American College Students at a Predominantly White Institution." Equity & Excellence in Education (2026): 1-18. (Co-authored with Our HMoob American College Paj Ntaub Research Team)

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• “War’s Returns: Refugee Archiving, Living, Refusing.” Journal of Transnational American Studies 16, no. 2 (2025): 129-148. (Co-authored with Ma Vang)

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• “STEM Asianization and the Racialization of the Educational Experiences of Asian American College Students.” Race Ethnicity and Education 29, no. 2 (2025): 1-22. (Co-authored with Matthew Wolfgram, Stacey J. Lee, Chundou Her, Bailey B. Smolarek, and Choua P. Xiong)

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• “Violent Invisibilities: The Battle for Hmong and Southeast Asian American Legibility in Higher Education.” AGITATE! Journal 6 (2024). (Co-authored with Kaochi Pha and Dee Pha)

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• “Building Relations, Critical University Studies, and Student Activism: A Conversation with Roderick A. Ferguson. AGITATE! Journal 6 (2024). (Co-authored with José Manuel Santilla Blanco and Roderick A. Ferguson)

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• “Seditious Acts: Being in, but not of, the Neoliberal University.” AGITATE! Journal 6 (2024). (Co-authored with José Manuel Santillana Blanco, Kidiocus Carroll, and Naimah Pétigny)

 

• “Testimony as Justice: An Anti-Carceral Transformative Feminist Response to Sexual Violence and Abusive International Marriages.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 44, no. 3 (2023): 18-41.

 

• “Colorblindness as Anti-Asian Racism in the Midwest.” American Studies (AMSJ) 62, no. 3 (2023): 119-142.

 

• “De-Exceptionalizing Sunisa Lee: Uneven Gymnastics and a Hmong American State-less Critique.” American Quarterly 75, no. 3 (2023): 609-631. (Co-authored with Kari Smalkoski)

 

• “How We Became Bulletproof: A Critical Conversation Among Three Hmong American ARMY Siblings.” The Rhizomatic Revolution Review [20130613] 1, no. 2 (March 2021): 1-15. (Co-authored with Kaochi Pha and Meria Khaosue Pha)

 

• “Two Hate Notes: Deportations, COVID-19, and Xenophobia against Hmong Americans in the Midwest.” Journal of Asian American Studies 23, no. 3 (2020): 335-339.

 

• “The Politics of Vernacular Activism: Hmong Americans Organizing for Social Justice in Minnesota.” Amerasia Journal 45, no. 2 (2019): 207-221.

 

• “‘Minnesota is Open to Everything’: Queer Hmong and the Politics of Community Formation in the Diaspora.” Minnesota History 66, no. 6 (Summer 2019): 255-263.

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• “Hmong Sexual Diversity: Beginning the Conversation.” Hmong Studies Journal 16 (2015): 1-18. (Co-authored with Louisa Schein and Pao Lee Vue)

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Chapters and Entries

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• “Queer Families.” In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Refugee Studies, edited by Yến Lê Espiritu, Lan Duong, Ma Vang, and Lila Sharif. Thousand Oaks: SAGE, 2025.

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• “Unsettled Mourning.” In Sparked: George Floyd, Racism, and the Progressive Illusion, edited by Walt Jacobs, Wendy Thompson Taiwo, and Amy August, 192-198. Saint Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2021.

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• “Hmong American Literature and Culture.” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature and Culture, edited by Josephine Lee. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. (Co-authored with Aline Lo)​

 

• “Minneapolis-St. Paul, Twin Cities Hmong Community.” In America’s Changing Neighborhoods: An Exploration of Diversity Through Places, edited by Reed Ueda, 886-890. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2017.

 

• “Finding Queer Hmong America: Gender, Culture, and Happiness Among Hmong LGBTQ.” In Claiming Place: On the Agency of Hmong Women, edited by Chia Youyee Vang, Faith Nibbs, and Ma Vang, 303-325. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016.

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Reviews

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• “Bitterroot: Life in the Mountains on Fire.” Asian Ethnicity (2025): 1-4. 

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• “Review Essay of Fly Until You Die: An Oral History of Hmong Pilots in the Vietnam War and Prisoner of Wars: A Hmong Fighter Pilot’s Story of Escaping Death and Confronting Life by Chia Youyee Vang.” Journal of Vietnamese Studies 17, no. 1 (2022): 72-78.

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• “Review of History on the Run: Secrecy, Fugitivity, and Hmong Refugee Epistemologies by Ma Vang.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space (October 11, 2021).

 

• “Review of The Bride Price: A Hmong Wedding Story by Mai N. Moua.” Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement 13, no. 1 (2018): 1-4. 

 

• “Review of Hmong and American: From Refugees to Citizens, edited by Vincent K. Her and Mary Louise Buley-Meissner.” Hmong Studies Journal 13 (2012): 1-4.