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Dr. Nengher N. Vang is Assistant Professor of History in the Department of History and
Political Science at Elizabeth City State University. He was the postdoctoral fellow in
Hmong Studies in the Asian American Studies program and the Institute for Advanced Study
at the University of Minnesota in 2010 and visiting instructor in the Asian American
Studies program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he developed and taught
“Hmong Experiences in the U.S.,” “Hmong American Studies,” and “Hmong American Politics in
Global Context,” in 2009. He is revising his dissertation, Dreaming of Home, Dreaming of
Land: Displacements and Hmong Transnational Politics, into a book manuscript that
critically analyzes the history of the Hmong diaspora’s involvement in the conflict in
Laos after the communist takeover in 1975. The manuscript challenges liberal assumptions
about Hmong politics in America and critiques the pervasive notion of Hmong as victims of
larger social and political transformations in existing scholarship. The manuscript
ultimately provides not only a more complete and dynamic understanding of Hmong politics
in the United States but also why diaspora interventions lead to peace or violence in the
homeland and what national and international powers can do to promote more constructive
interventions and discourage those that fuel conflicts.
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