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Olivia Wing

PhD Student
History
Phone: 541-346-0900
Research Interests: Asian American History, Modern U.S. History, History of Youth Culture, Gender History

Biography

Olivia Wing is a PhD candidate focusing on Chinese and Japanese American youth culture in the early- to mid-twentieth century Pacific Northwest. Her dissertation examines the social worlds young people built through recreation and leisure activities, such as sports, clubs, and pageants. She asks how second- and third-generation youth culture shaped interethnic dynamics and their larger communities in the context of geopolitical upheaval.