David Zander

David Zander is a Cultural Anthropologist who has worked with and written about many of the Asian Pacific refugees and immigrants in Minnesota. The Minnesota History Center has published and archived eight of his life histories of Hawaiians Samoans and Karen in Minnesota. He has published three small collections of Lao, Karen, and Cambodian (Khmer) folktales and personal stories told by refugees and monks in Minnesota published with the help of graphic design students from Dunwoody College. He has articles published in Asian American Press about Karen monks and was awarded a prize for his article the other face of Bhutan about Hindu refugees from Bhutan who fled to Nepal.