Americanist Dinner Forum with Dr. Kong Pha

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Kong Pheng Pha is assistant professor of gender and women’s studies and Asian American studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research, public scholarship, and creative activity focus on Hmong history and politics; war and U.S. empire; critical refugee studies; Asian American communities in the Midwest; Asian American education; and LGBTQ social movements in the U.S. His book Queering the Hmong Diaspora: Racial Subjectivity and the Myth of Hyperheterosexuality (University of Washington Press, 2025) analyzes Hmong racial subject formation and cultural transformations against the backdrop of U.S. sexual and queer liberalism. His research has been published in the Hmong Studies Journal, Minnesota History, Amerasia Journal, Journal of Asian American Studies, American Quarterly, American Studies, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, AGITATE!, Race Ethnicity and Education, Journal of Transnational American Studies, and Equity and Excellence in Education. His public scholarship has been published in Aperture Magazine, Leader-Telegram, Reappropriate, Twin Cities Daily Planet, and Hmong Today. His current projects include a book of personal narrative nonfiction essays about Hmong’s place in a revolutionary America, and a book on the visuality of invisibility, secrecy, and statelessness.