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Produced in a historiographical spirit, this literature review traces trends in the depiction of Hmong Americans not in popular representations such as newspapers or public perception, but in the American academic discourse itself. By adopting a thematic approach, it evidences the curious chronological development of which aspects of Hmong studies were treated in which way from the 1980s until the present. To this extent, the paper argues that while the 1980s and 1990s saw a heavy emphasis on social scientific studies of Hmong family ties and clan structure which, while careful and mostly sensitive in their treatment, nevertheless on occasion construct the Hmong as either irreconcilably or undesirably different (sections I and II). It then proceeds to crystallise the significant treatment of education with respect to the Hmong, which, produced in particular in the late 1990s and early 2000s, presented powerful cases of forced assimilation through the lens of Hmong Americans themselves (section III). A brief fourth section focuses on the marginal role ascribed to economic problems encountered by the Hmong, treated as almost inevitable. Crucially, the fifth section proceeds to problematise more recent feminist critiques. The argument presented here is that their central drawback lies in the appropriation and overriding of Hmong voices for a particular project. This construction of Hmong voices, finally, is on the retreat in most recent studies which, centred on horticulture, music, rituals and medicine--to name but a few--attempt to elucidate the Hmong American experience through the lens of the protagonists themselves. This is an important step, and one which must be pursued further. Keywords: Hmong Americans, Hmong Studies, Representations

When Brian J. Druker was a boy, he wanted to be a baseball player; Nicholas B. Lydon had his sights set on flying jets; Charles L. Sawyers knew early on that he wanted to practice medicine. Decades later, this trio (Figure 1) would collaborate to revolutionize the treatment of chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). On September 14, the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation announced that they will recognize these researchers with the 2009 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for research that led to the development of drugs, including imatinib (Gleevec) and dasatinib (Sprycel), which have converted CML from a fatal cancer to a manageable condition. Notably, imatinib was the first successful, molecularly targeted, small-molecule drug approved for cancer therapy. The winners spoke with the JCI about their success story.

This year's Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award is given to the three scientists who developed molecularly targeted treatments for chronic myeloid leukemia, converting what was previously a fatal cancer into a manageable chronic condition. The three honored scientists are Brian J. Druker (Oregon Health & Science University), Nicholas B. Lydon (formerly at Novartis) and Charles L. Sawyers (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center). Druker, Lydon and Sawyers have literally turned the field of cancer therapeutics upside down and completely around, transcending the Old Masters--the one thing that Picasso never did.

Jones ignores statements showing: that official imperial policy prohibited entry of missionaries into British India (261-62, 270, 320-24, and elsewhere); that Indian Christians were severely persecuted by imperial officials; that Indian Christian soldiers were required to participate in Hindu festivals, in violation of their consciences; that British officials who attempted to propagate Christian faith were summarily cashiered (270); and that British officials, civil and military, who dared to organize a formal petition against government support for Hindu institutions, were reprimanded or required to resign (271-72).

Often cited as an exemplary form of the epistemological violence wrought by the British colonial rule in much postcolonial inquiry, the 1872 Census merits closer analysis in the context of wider 19th-century conversations about the so-called science of statistics. An in-depth study of the processes and reports reveals that the village munduls were in fact indispensable to the actual work of enumeration and the singular figure of \"indigenous agency.\" The role they played constituted an important condition of the possibility of implementing the census in late 19th-century Bengal.

In today's era of quick experimental tests of theoretical predictions without strong grounding in the natural history of the species being tested, Professor Davies has consistently conducted theoretical research that is steeped in a detailed understanding, description, and integration of the natural history of the species that he studies. Along the way, he also produced the first important evolutionary game-theory models for biparental care, the first systematic application of DNA fingerprinting for the analysis of mating systems, and an unparalleled research program that combines the most sophisticated of modern tools with solid natural history, observation, and field experimentation.