March 2018

UWM Researcher Who Studies Hmong Refugees was a Child Refugee Herself

Professor Chia Youyee Vang, a child refugee herself, now studies Hmong refugees all over the world. Vang is one of the world’s leading experts on Hmong refugees. She is also one of the first of Hmong descent to have become a full professor at a major research university.

SAVE THE DATE! Monday, April 23, 2018; 3:30 pm. Greene Hall

The Department of History welcomes Alexis J. Peri, PhD, from Boston University, for the 2nd Annual Jere D. McGaffey Lecture Series which will discuss materials from her recently published book, The War Within: Diaries from the Siege of Leningrad (Harvard University Press, 2017)