Zha Blong Xiong

Zha Blong Xiong is an associate professor in the Department of Family Social Science in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA. He specializes in parent/adolescent relationships in immigrant families, adolescent adjustment, and parent education. In less than 20 years Xiong has gone from being a refugee who spoke no English to becoming the first Hmong tenured professor at the University of Minnesota and the first at a major research university in the United States.

Education

• Ph.D., M.A., family social science, University of Minnesota–Twin Cities (Dissertation title: Hmong American Parent-Adolescent Problem-Solving Interactions: An Analytic Induction Analysis.)
• B.A., psychology, Winona State University.

References

Zha Blong Xiong, First Hmong Professor to Receive Tenure, Hmong Times (Minn.), June 9, 2006

Making an Impact: Zha Blong Xiong is a force within academia—and his Hmong community