Vang, Nengher

Nengher N. Vang is Associate Professor of Transnational American History in the History Department and Program Coordinator for Race & Ethnic Studies. He earned a B.A. in Sociology from Davidson College, an M.A. from the Iliff School of Theology, an M.A. in Peace Studies from the University of Notre Dame, and his Ph.D. in History from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in 2010. 

He teaches the Vietnam War, US foreign relations and empire, Hmong American historical and contemporary issues, and other courses (including Historical Methods and American history since 1877) in the History Department and the Race and Ethnic Studies program.  In 2017, he and Professor Elizabeth Kim of the Department of Languages & Literatures developed the Asian/Asian American Studies Minor.  He is also a co-advisor to the Oral History Wisconsin Farm Project at UW-Whitewater and a member of the editorial review boards of the Hmong Studies Journal.  His research interests include US-Asia relations, American imperialism, comparative race/ethnicity, immigration, social movements, and the politics of diasporic communities in the U.S. with an emphasis on the politics of the Hmong.

Selected publications:

• Nengher N. Vang, "Beyond the Peace Accords: Legacies of America's Secret War in Laos," in Beyond the Quagmire: New Interpretations of the Vietnam War, edited by Geoffrey W. Jensen and Matthew M. Stith (Denton, Texas: University of Texas Press, 2019), 47-82.
• Nengher N. Vang, "Unlawful or Not? Re-assessing the Value and Impact of Hmong American Transnational Politics,” Amerasia Journal 44, no. 2(2018): 43-64.
• Yang Sao Xiong, Nengher N. Vang, Chia Youyee Vang, “Charting New Paths for Critical Hmong American and Diaspora Studies,” Amerasia Journal 44, no. 2 (2018): ix-xxviii. 
• Nengher N. Vang and Jeremy Hein, “From Kwvtxhiaj and Pajntaub to Theater and Literature:  The Role of Generation, Gender, and Human Rights in the Expansion of Hmong American Art.”  Hmong Studies Journal 18 (2017): 1-18. 
• Nengher N. Vang and Jeremy Hein, “Hmong American Leadership and Unity in the Post-Vang Pao Era.”  Hmong Studies Journal 16 (2015): 1-18.
• Jeremy Hein and Nengher N. Vang, “Politicians and Social Movements: Impact of Electoral Victory on Local, National, and Transnational Activism by Hmong Americans in Minneapolis-St. Paul.” Social Movements Studies 14:2 (2015): 164-179.
• Nengher N. Vang and Jeremy Hein, "Hmong American Leadership & Unity in Post-Vang Pao Era." Hmong Studies Journal 16 (2015): 1-18.
• Nengher N. Vang, “Peace-Makers or Peace-Wreckers: The Hmong in the Conflicts in Laos during and after the Cold War.” Journal of NCAH 22 (2014): 57-82.
• Nengher N. Vang, “Political Transmigrants: Rethinking Hmong Political Activism in America.” Hmong Studies Journal 12 (2011): 1-46.