Introduction to the WWW Hmong Homepage
What is the WWW Hmong Homepage?
The WWW Hmong Homepage, first made available on the Internet in March,
1994, is a volunteer effort bringing together a collection the
Internet-based resources related to Hmong news and current-events,
issues, history, publications, and culture.
This site is
an official
Asian Studies
WWW Virtual Library Associate site.
The WWW Hmong Homepage was created by Craig D. Rice and Robin Vue-Benson
in response to their shared interest in Hmong people and concerns and
to personal encounters with Hmong repatriation and resettlement
issues. Craig developed and managed the site from its inception in March, 1994 to August 2004. He currently
works in Information and Instructional Technologies at St. Olaf
College in Northfield, Minnesota. Both Robin and Craig were graduate
students at the University of Minnesota in the College of Education
and Human Development's "International Development Education" program.
WWW Hmong Homepage contributors include K-12 ESL and art teachers,
Hmong students and professionals, and people who have lived in or
traveled to Laos and Thailand.
Since August, 2004, the WWW Hmong Homepage content has been edited by Dr. Mark E. Pfeifer.
Dr. Mark E. Pfeifer is editor of the Hmong Studies Journal and the Hmong
Studies Internet Resource Center (www.hmongstudies.org)
and published Hmong-Related Works 1996-2006: An Annotated Bibliography with Scarecrow Press in 2007.
From 2000-2006, he served as the Hmong Resource Center Library Director at the Hmong Cultural
Center in Saint Paul. He continues to serve as an advisor to the Board of Directors and
Staff of the Hmong Cultural Center. He is currently editing an anthology of scholarly research
related to the Hmong American experience. Dr. Pfeifer presently serves as an
Academic Librarian at Texas A and M University in Corpus Christi.
Dr. Pfeifer earned a B.A. in Urban Affairs at Marquette University in 1992,
an M.A. in Urban Studies from Temple University in 1994, an M.A. in Library
Science from the University of North Texas in 2005 and a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Toronto in 1999.
