Blong Xiong is an associate professor in the Department of Family Social Science in the College of Education and Human Development

College of Education and Human Development

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 at the University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota

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, 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

University of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...

 and the first at a major research university in the United States

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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.