Presentations
Queer HMoob Storying Other Worlds with Dr. Doua KhaÂ
March 12, 2025
Dr. Doua Kha, a social Queer and Trans HMoob refugee scholar, who shared their journey dissertation and work with the Queer HMoob community. Their talk goes into how storytelling acts as a practice to story their lives to reimagine the intersections of HMoob an queer identities. The talk ends with a discussion panel with Dr. 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 explore how schools treat Hmong and Asian American history and culture, what teachers need to know about Hmong history and culture, how to embody a proAsian American lens in schools, HMoob college student experiences in Wisconsin, and more.
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PAR for College Students with Disabilities presentation at the Rotunda
March 6, 2024
DJC presents 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
October 18, 2022
Peterson, A., Tienor, M., & Meyer, M. (2021). Beyond Accessibility: Leveraging the Voices of College Students with Disabilities. (Pictured L-R): Matthew Wolfgram (Advisor), McKenna Meyer (Researcher), Maggie Tienor (Researcher), Ashley Peterson (Researcher), Courtney Wilt (Research Mentor)
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 will highlight the importance of data equity, its implications for policy and institutional leaders when making accurate and equitable decisions that best benefit impacted communities.
STEM Pushout and Redirection: Institutional logics of disposability and accountability that impact the education goals and experiences of HMoob American college students.
2020
The team presents to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation their research findings regarding the factors that have influenced UW-Madison HMoob American academic experiences, which ultimately informed their college-to-workforce pathways. In addition, their presentation demonstrates how Community Based Participatory Action Research (CBPAR) can be an innovative research practice in educational settings, as it offers a transformative experience for students as researchers and, overall, as individuals.
CCWT Seminar Series with Gary Anderson
April 29th, 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, it’s 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 the ways that PAR challenges the current dominance of New Public Management in Schools and Universities and the dominant epistemology of university research.
February 6, 2019
Presentation on Documenting the Aims of Higher Ed in Wisconsin
November 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 School of Education Diana Hess and UW Professor of Political Science Katherine J. Cramer.
Webinars
Spring 2023 Webinar Series: Participatory Action Research in Practice
February 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
May 10, 2021
Participatory Research as Autoformación (Self-Education) and Consciousness Raising with Andrea Dyrness, University of Colorado Boulder.
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 Dr. Mai See Thao, who is the Director of the newly created University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Hmong Studies program and as Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Global Religions, and Cultures.
