Research interests
John Wong's research focuses on hockey, history of
business of sport, sport business decision-making
process and power relationships.
Teaching/professional interests
Wong has taught Introduction of Exercise and Sport
Sciences, Sport Management, Leadership and Motivation,
Sport Marketing, Facility Planning and Management,
Sport Industry, Management Concepts, Sport History,
Fitness Management; Women, Sport, & Leisure in the
U.S.: A Social History; and Social History of Sport in
the United States.
Recent accomplishments
“Entrepreneurship and the Chicago
Blackhawks.” In sports in Chicago: An
Anthology, edited by Gerald Gems and Steven Riess.
Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press
(forthcoming)
“From Rat Portage to Kenora: The Death of a
(Big-Time) Hockey Dream,” Journal of Sport
History, 33 (2006): 401-417.
"The Business of Professional Hockey and Urban
Development." Paper presented at the international
conference Critical Perspectives on Hockey in Canada
& Beyond at Victoria, British Columbia, 2007.
"Economic Development, Class, and the Creation of a
Sporting Culture in Vancouver, 1860-1914." Paper
presented at the 2007 annual conference of the North
American Society of Sport History at Texas Tech
University, Lubbock, Texas.
Lords of the Rinks: The Emergence of the National
Hockey League, 1875-1936 (University of Toronto
Press, 2005).
Educational background
- Ph.D. Sport Studies, University of Maryland, 2001.
- Robert Morris University, Master of Science in
Business Administration, 1988.
- University of British Colbumbia, Bachelor of
Physical Education, 1979.
