Kong Pheng Pha
Position title: Assistant Professor of Gender & Women's Studies and Asian American Studies
Pronouns: he/him/his
Email: kpha@wisc.edu
Address:
3434 Sterling Hall
Kong Pheng Pha’s research explores the histories of refugee migration, queer and anti-racist social movements/community organizing, and Asian American racial, gender, sexual, and queer formations, with particular attention on Hmong Americans. He is currently writing two books, the first is an academic monograph that explores the racial, gender, and queer dimensions of Hmong social and political life in the U.S. The second is a book of essays that contemplates what it means to be Hmong in a revolutionary America. His work has also been published/forthcoming in Hmong Studies Journal, Minnesota History, Amerasia, Journal of Asian American Studies, American Quarterly, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, AGITATE! Journal, and American Studies.
His community-based participatory action research and creative activity with Hmong American communities and college students have been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation. Pha’s other public-facing work haven been published in Hmong Today, Twin Cities Daily Planet, Asian American Organizing Project, Reappropriate, Leader-Telegram, and Aperture Magazine.