Karen B. Vang

Karen B. Vang

Karen Vang

Ph.D. Candidate

  • Cultural Studies Graduate Group
Research Interests 

Traces genealogies of Hmong Caub Fab through ancestral knowledges and kinship with spirits of skies, spirits of lands, and spirits of waters.  Research centers Hmong women as knowledge keepers.  

Education
  • MA in Communication Studies, Sacramento State University, 2015
  • BA in Communication Studies Sacramento State University, 2012
Presentations
  • Vang, K. 2014. A Mythic Hero: An Analysis of General Vang Pao. National Communication Association, Chicago, IL.
  • Vang,K. 2013. Hmong Spirituality: Christian Hmong, Animistic Hmong, and the Narrative Paradigm. National Communication Association, Washington, D.C.
  • Vang, K. 2013. Hmong Histories: When Oral Tradition Matter. National Communication, Washington, D.C.