Presentations
Queer HMoob Storying Other Worlds with Dr. Doua Kha
March 12, 2025
Doua Kha, a social queer and trans HMoob refugee scholar, shared their journey, dissertation and work with the queer HMoob community. Their talk explored how storytelling serves as a practice for telling their lives and reimagining the intersections of HMoob and queer identities. The talk ended with a discussion panel with Kong Pheng Pha, Chundou Her, Steven Yang, and Zong Moua on HMoob queer experiences.
How Hmong and Asian American Cultures Are Taught in Schools, and How They Should Be
March 7, 2025
The College Paj Ntaub team and other scholars from the UW–Madison School of Education explored how schools treat Hmong and Asian American history and culture, what teachers need to know about Hmong history and culture, how to embody a pro-Asian American lens in schools, HMoob college student experiences in Wisconsin, and more.
PAR for College Students with Disabilities Presentation at the Rotunda
March 6, 2024
DJC presented their research findings to Wisconsin legislators, policymakers, and the public at the Wisconsin State Capitol for the annual Research in the Rotunda. Pictured above are the students presenting to Governor Tony Evers.
DJC Poster Presentation at the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater Undergraduate Research Day & the Research Resources Fair
Oct. 18, 2022
Peterson, A., Tienor, M., & Meyer, M. (2021). Beyond Accessibility: Leveraging the Voices of College Students with Disabilities.
Data Equity and Why It Is Important to Southeast Asian Americans with KaYing Yang in the Wisconsin Idea Room
April 8, 2022
KaYing Yang, a social justice advocate, shared her journey through a three-decade-long career in public policy and community service for Southeast Asian Americans. Her talk highlighted the importance of data equity, its implications for policy and institutional leaders when making accurate and equitable decisions that best benefit impacted communities.
Hmong Studies Consortium
March 30, 2022
STEM Pushout and Redirection: Institutional logics of disposability and accountability that impact the education goals and experiences of HMoob American college students.
Activating Your Agency & Building Critical Consciousness
2020
The team presented their research findings to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on the factors that have influenced UW–Madison HMoob American academic experiences and ultimately informed their college-to-workforce pathways. In addition, their presentation demonstrated how community-based participatory action research (CBPAR) can be an innovative research practice in educational settings, offering a transformative experience for students as researchers and, overall, as individuals.
CCWT Seminar Series with Gary Anderson
April 29, 2019
The growing popularity of participatory action research (PAR) can be attributed to its commitment to doing research with rather than on or for participants, its potential to challenge policy and practice from the bottom up, and its multiple goals of knowledge generation, concrete action, and critical pedagogy. This presentation focused on how PAR challenges the current dominance of New Public Management in Schools and Universities and the dominant epistemology of university research.
Our HMoob American College Paj Ntaub
Feb. 6, 2019
Presentation on Documenting the Aims of Higher Ed in Wisconsin
Nov. 29, 2017
The team of student researchers developed research questions and designed and conducted an innovative qualitative research study, and they presented their findings, with commentary from two of our top leaders and scholars of higher education in the state, Dean of the UW–Madison School of Education Diana Hess and UW–Madison professor of Political Science Katherine J. Cramer.
Webinars
Spring 2023 Webinar Series: Participatory Action Research in Practice
Feb. 7, 2023
Research Collective for justice-involved populations with Orlando Mayorga, Pablo Mendoza, and Jim Sosnowski from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Spring 2023 Webinar Series: Participatory Action Research in Practice
Feb. 7, 2023
Research Collective for justice-involved populations with Orlando Mayorga, Pablo Mendoza, and Jim Sosnowski from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Spring 2021 Webinar Series: Participatory Action Research in Practice
April 26, 2021
Girls of Color and PAR: Investigating Sex Education in Chicago Public Schools with the Womxn that Fight Research Team, Chicago, IL.
Spring 2021 Webinar Series: Participatory Action Research in Practice
March 29, 2021
Participatory Action Research at the Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems with Mrill Ingram, University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Spring 2021 Webinar Series: Participatory Action Research in Practice
February 22, 2021
Building New Roots: Growing PAR in a New Context with Julissa Ventura, Marquette University.
Living Hmong Studies, Building the Field w/ Dr. Mai See Thao
November 4, 2020
Student researchers from the Our HMoob American College Paj Ntaub research study interviewed Mai See Thao, director of the newly created University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh Hmong Studies program and an assistant professor of Anthropology, Global Religions, and Cultures.
SEPARC is being funded by the racial equity grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed here are those of the UW-Madison Paj Ntaub research team and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation
