Mao Lee

• Educational Background & Specialties
• Publications
• Activities
• Courses

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

• MA: Sociology, University of Minnesota
• MSEd: Educational Psychology, Northern Illinois University
• BS: Psychology, University of Wisconsin-River Falls

Specialties

• Gender
• Family
• Refugee
• Hmong
• Education
• Qualitative Methods

Publications

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Publications

• Lee, Mao S. 2025. “Home.” In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Refugee Studies, edited by Y.L. Espiritu, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc.

• Lee, Mao S. 2024. “The Manifestation of Transborder Love: How Hmong Women Reconcile Traumas through Retelling Supernatural Stories.” SPARK 4:55-64.

• Lee, Mao S. 2024. “Nraim Ib Txhis” (On Abortion). The Paper Lantern Project 1:45.

• Lee, Mao S. 2023. “Khib Thiab Kawm Where I’m From” (On Gender Inequality). The Critical Refugee Studies Collective.

• Lee, Mao S. 2023. “Paj Xyeem.” Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement 18(2):1–3. doi: 10.7771/2153-8999.1302.

• Lee, Mao S. 2020. “Hmong Survivors: Second Wave Hmong Parents’ Identity”. Hmong Studies Journal 21:1-29. 

Activities

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Activities

Research

• Research Assistant: Cim Cia (Remember) Project: Sharing the Lives of Hmong AmericanVeterans Co-PIs: Chong Moua, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh & Jenna Cushing-Leubner, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. 2025-Present

Courses

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Courses

• SOC/AAS 3251W: Sociological Perspectives of Race, Class, and Gender (Instructor, Spring 2025)
• SOC 3801: Sociological Research Methods (TA, Fall 2023)
• SOC 3613W: Stuffed and Starved: The Politics of Eating (TA, Spring 2023)
• SOC/AAS 3251W: Sociological Perspectives of Race, Class, and Gender (TA, Fall 2022)
• SOC 1001: Introduction to Sociology (TA, 2021-2022 & Fall 2024)