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 Columbia, Bachelor of Physical Education, 1979.
