Wong
Biographic Data
| ID | 53923 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wong |
| FAMILY NAME | Wong |
| SIGNATURE | WONG |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2414-9320 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Investigating the relationship of indoor temperature and humidity with sleeping quality in private residential care homes for persons with disabilities in Hong Kong
Objective This study investigated the relationship between indoor temperature, humidity, and sleep quality in private residential care homes for persons with disabilities (PRCHDs) in Hong Kong, a vulnerable and under-researched population. Methods A 6 month pilot study (August 2024–February 2025) was conducted in three PRCHDs. Smart sensors monitored indoor temperature and relative humidity in dining areas and bedrooms. Thirty residents with disa…
Nothing Personal: An Anti-Asian Hate Crime
This autoethnography reflects the author’s devastation and recovery after being victimized by a stranger amid a surge of racist and anti-Asian attacks during the pandemic. Triggers and images impact her mental health which highlights her need for professional trauma therapy. During healing, she discovers how leaching images and triggers can spark fear and anxiety. The author lives the irony of both a culture of campaigns against anti-Asian racism…
Prayers for The Poet
The authors engage in an evocative autoethnography1 as they live through the different ways they both grieve and mourn the death of a well-loved friend, colleague, and professor. They share how they navigate the grieving process of death and dying through their cultural traditions.2 Sharing personal stories can be therapeutic to make sense of ourselves and our experiences3 as writing the autoethnography “must always be interventionist, as it give…
Spatial and racial covid-19 disparities in U.S. nursing homes
Accessible Green Spaces? Spatial Disparities in Residential Green Space among People with Disabilities in the United States
This article presents new quantitative results on the distribution of residential green space for people with disabilities in the United States, building on and bridging scholarly research in two distinct domains: one involving approaches that quantify disparities in green space access among racialized minorities and socioeconomically disadvantaged groups, and the other using qualitative methods that demonstrate that most green spaces remain inac…
Assessment of an evacuation shelter program for people with access and functional needs in Monroe County, Florida during Hurricane Irma
White Whispers 2: An Asian Experience
The author writes an evocative autoethnography about living through another racist experience that dislodges pain, shock, anger, and sadness. Her firsthand article, White Whispers (2008) had already exposed another moment of suffering. As teacher, writer, mother, musician, and daughter, she reflects, again, on living in both a culture of diversity and culture of racism despite social efforts at advancing equity for people of color. Overall, she t…
Covid-19
In this evocative autoethnography I share my ordeal of living through stay-at-home orders from a global pandemic. As confinement takes over, I reflect on how life involves both a culture of sanity and a culture of crisis. I write autoethnographically to manage a modicum of sanity and to inspire others to share their own experiences. The autoethnography becomes “interventionist, seeking to give notice to those who may otherwise not be allowed to t…
Niloo
This evocative autoethnography reflects the author’s grief after she learns that a past teacher candidate was killed on Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) flight 752. Grief washes over her as “writing down our worst experiences can also offer a way to cope with some of life’s horrors.”1 The autoethnography becomes “interventionist, seeking to give notice to those who may otherwise not be allowed to tell their story or are denied a voice to spea…
Made in Greece: Palso Federation and foreign language education in Greece
For over 50 years the private language school system in Greece, commonly known by the Greek name ‘frontisterion’, has pioneered the development of language studies making Greece one of the publishing market leaders in continental Europe in books and documents published in English. Stimulated by the demand for international trade, the ‘frontisteria’ arose to meet the need of families wishing to take advantage of the international trade opportuniti…
Tommy's Tune: Autoethnographic Duet
The following autoethnographic duet by faculty advisor and professor creates a dramatic and evocative account of the personal and cultural experience about a disabled student teacher. They blend storytelling and music which fuses a theoretical analysis about storytelling and life. Although sociocultural issues draw deep reflection about the emotional turmoil, cultural influences of language and social interaction provide details that critique soc…
Geographies of medicalized welfare: Spatial analysis of supplemental security income in the U.S., 2000–2010
An Autoethnography: Music Therapy after Laser Eye Surgery
The following autoethnography reveals the author's physical struggle with being confined in bed after laser eye surgery. She reflects on living simultaneously in a culture of temptation and a culture of control. The challenge causes her to shift back and forth within her personal experience while listening to music being played at her home. At a deeper level, she finds inner strength to resist using her eyes as the music therapeutically addresses…
A Neophyte About Online Teaching: Almost Done
The following autoethnography reflects a neophyte instructor's obsession with teaching an online graduate course. The experience forces her to move ethnographically forward and backward with students in a novel, and sometimes, more intimate fashion. She struggles to balance a serving of technology with a dollop of human interaction, but finds online teaching can be time consuming. Though students are physically dispersed and isolated, they sustai…
White Whispers
The autoethnography in this article explores the author's struggle with racism. The emotional landscape causes her to blur the boundaries between the individual and collective human experience. She reflects on memories of discrimination and reveals the irony of how she lives in both a culture of diversity and a culture of prejudice. Reflecting challenges the author to realize that racism still exists despite societal efforts at advancing the noti…
At the Beach: Mother and Daughter
A Fugue About Grief
The following autoethnography reveals the author's personal struggle when informed about a suicide. The resulting emotional turmoil causes her to shift forward, backward, and sideways through memories of death during a summer beach outing with her daughter. The narrative demonstrates how she copes with her inner anguish while striving to preserve a happy union. She reveals the painful irony of living simultaneously in a culture of happiness and c…
Neuroticism: End of a Doctoral Dissertation
This autobiographical account of the author, a graduate student, reflects the end of her doctoral studies. She writes to the point of obsession. The author inscribes into the curriculum her process of becoming. More central, she desires to create a pedagogical context for others to identify the epistemological assumptions that underlie the phenomenon of writing as reflective practice. Autobiography was discovered as a way to make sense and transf…
Joseph Santini: Divided I Stand
This short story chronicles a professional jazz musician, Joseph Santini, in conflict about whether he should accept a full-time teaching position as a high school music educator. This story focuses, interprets, clarifies, and communicates Joseph's conflict. It also demonstrates the use of stories for culturally relevant research. Joseph's experience transcends impressions of musicians and teachers prevalent in the dominant cultural milieu. The s…
Spoiled in Academia
Geographies of medicalized welfare: Spatial analysis of supplemental security income in the U.S., 2000–2010
An Autoethnography: Music Therapy after Laser Eye Surgery
The following autoethnography reveals the author's physical struggle with being confined in bed after laser eye surgery. She reflects on living simultaneously in a culture of temptation and a culture of control. The challenge causes her to shift back and forth within her personal experience while listening to music being played at her home. At a deeper level, she finds inner strength to resist using her eyes as the music therapeutically addresses…
White Whispers
The autoethnography in this article explores the author's struggle with racism. The emotional landscape causes her to blur the boundaries between the individual and collective human experience. She reflects on memories of discrimination and reveals the irony of how she lives in both a culture of diversity and a culture of prejudice. Reflecting challenges the author to realize that racism still exists despite societal efforts at advancing the noti…
Neuroticism: End of a Doctoral Dissertation
This autobiographical account of the author, a graduate student, reflects the end of her doctoral studies. She writes to the point of obsession. The author inscribes into the curriculum her process of becoming. More central, she desires to create a pedagogical context for others to identify the epistemological assumptions that underlie the phenomenon of writing as reflective practice. Autobiography was discovered as a way to make sense and transf…
A Fugue About Grief
The following autoethnography reveals the author's personal struggle when informed about a suicide. The resulting emotional turmoil causes her to shift forward, backward, and sideways through memories of death during a summer beach outing with her daughter. The narrative demonstrates how she copes with her inner anguish while striving to preserve a happy union. She reveals the painful irony of living simultaneously in a culture of happiness and c…
Accessible Green Spaces? Spatial Disparities in Residential Green Space among People with Disabilities in the United States
This article presents new quantitative results on the distribution of residential green space for people with disabilities in the United States, building on and bridging scholarly research in two distinct domains: one involving approaches that quantify disparities in green space access among racialized minorities and socioeconomically disadvantaged groups, and the other using qualitative methods that demonstrate that most green spaces remain inac…
Assessment of an evacuation shelter program for people with access and functional needs in Monroe County, Florida during Hurricane Irma
Covid-19
In this evocative autoethnography I share my ordeal of living through stay-at-home orders from a global pandemic. As confinement takes over, I reflect on how life involves both a culture of sanity and a culture of crisis. I write autoethnographically to manage a modicum of sanity and to inspire others to share their own experiences. The autoethnography becomes “interventionist, seeking to give notice to those who may otherwise not be allowed to t…
Joseph Santini: Divided I Stand
This short story chronicles a professional jazz musician, Joseph Santini, in conflict about whether he should accept a full-time teaching position as a high school music educator. This story focuses, interprets, clarifies, and communicates Joseph's conflict. It also demonstrates the use of stories for culturally relevant research. Joseph's experience transcends impressions of musicians and teachers prevalent in the dominant cultural milieu. The s…
Neuroticism: End of a Doctoral Dissertation
This autobiographical account of the author, a graduate student, reflects the end of her doctoral studies. She writes to the point of obsession. The author inscribes into the curriculum her process of becoming. More central, she desires to create a pedagogical context for others to identify the epistemological assumptions that underlie the phenomenon of writing as reflective practice. Autobiography was discovered as a way to make sense and transf…
Joseph Santini: Divided I Stand
This short story chronicles a professional jazz musician, Joseph Santini, in conflict about whether he should accept a full-time teaching position as a high school music educator. This story focuses, interprets, clarifies, and communicates Joseph's conflict. It also demonstrates the use of stories for culturally relevant research. Joseph's experience transcends impressions of musicians and teachers prevalent in the dominant cultural milieu. The s…
Spoiled in Academia
At the Beach: Mother and Daughter
A Fugue About Grief
The following autoethnography reveals the author's personal struggle when informed about a suicide. The resulting emotional turmoil causes her to shift forward, backward, and sideways through memories of death during a summer beach outing with her daughter. The narrative demonstrates how she copes with her inner anguish while striving to preserve a happy union. She reveals the painful irony of living simultaneously in a culture of happiness and c…
A Neophyte About Online Teaching: Almost Done
The following autoethnography reflects a neophyte instructor's obsession with teaching an online graduate course. The experience forces her to move ethnographically forward and backward with students in a novel, and sometimes, more intimate fashion. She struggles to balance a serving of technology with a dollop of human interaction, but finds online teaching can be time consuming. Though students are physically dispersed and isolated, they sustai…
White Whispers
The autoethnography in this article explores the author's struggle with racism. The emotional landscape causes her to blur the boundaries between the individual and collective human experience. She reflects on memories of discrimination and reveals the irony of how she lives in both a culture of diversity and a culture of prejudice. Reflecting challenges the author to realize that racism still exists despite societal efforts at advancing the noti…
An Autoethnography: Music Therapy after Laser Eye Surgery
The following autoethnography reveals the author's physical struggle with being confined in bed after laser eye surgery. She reflects on living simultaneously in a culture of temptation and a culture of control. The challenge causes her to shift back and forth within her personal experience while listening to music being played at her home. At a deeper level, she finds inner strength to resist using her eyes as the music therapeutically addresses…
Geographies of medicalized welfare: Spatial analysis of supplemental security income in the U.S., 2000–2010
Tommy's Tune: Autoethnographic Duet
The following autoethnographic duet by faculty advisor and professor creates a dramatic and evocative account of the personal and cultural experience about a disabled student teacher. They blend storytelling and music which fuses a theoretical analysis about storytelling and life. Although sociocultural issues draw deep reflection about the emotional turmoil, cultural influences of language and social interaction provide details that critique soc…
Made in Greece: Palso Federation and foreign language education in Greece
For over 50 years the private language school system in Greece, commonly known by the Greek name ‘frontisterion’, has pioneered the development of language studies making Greece one of the publishing market leaders in continental Europe in books and documents published in English. Stimulated by the demand for international trade, the ‘frontisteria’ arose to meet the need of families wishing to take advantage of the international trade opportuniti…
White Whispers 2: An Asian Experience
The author writes an evocative autoethnography about living through another racist experience that dislodges pain, shock, anger, and sadness. Her firsthand article, White Whispers (2008) had already exposed another moment of suffering. As teacher, writer, mother, musician, and daughter, she reflects, again, on living in both a culture of diversity and culture of racism despite social efforts at advancing equity for people of color. Overall, she t…
Covid-19
In this evocative autoethnography I share my ordeal of living through stay-at-home orders from a global pandemic. As confinement takes over, I reflect on how life involves both a culture of sanity and a culture of crisis. I write autoethnographically to manage a modicum of sanity and to inspire others to share their own experiences. The autoethnography becomes “interventionist, seeking to give notice to those who may otherwise not be allowed to t…
Niloo
This evocative autoethnography reflects the author’s grief after she learns that a past teacher candidate was killed on Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) flight 752. Grief washes over her as “writing down our worst experiences can also offer a way to cope with some of life’s horrors.”1 The autoethnography becomes “interventionist, seeking to give notice to those who may otherwise not be allowed to tell their story or are denied a voice to spea…
Assessment of an evacuation shelter program for people with access and functional needs in Monroe County, Florida during Hurricane Irma
Nothing Personal: An Anti-Asian Hate Crime
This autoethnography reflects the author’s devastation and recovery after being victimized by a stranger amid a surge of racist and anti-Asian attacks during the pandemic. Triggers and images impact her mental health which highlights her need for professional trauma therapy. During healing, she discovers how leaching images and triggers can spark fear and anxiety. The author lives the irony of both a culture of campaigns against anti-Asian racism…
Prayers for The Poet
The authors engage in an evocative autoethnography1 as they live through the different ways they both grieve and mourn the death of a well-loved friend, colleague, and professor. They share how they navigate the grieving process of death and dying through their cultural traditions.2 Sharing personal stories can be therapeutic to make sense of ourselves and our experiences3 as writing the autoethnography “must always be interventionist, as it give…
Spatial and racial covid-19 disparities in U.S. nursing homes
Accessible Green Spaces? Spatial Disparities in Residential Green Space among People with Disabilities in the United States
This article presents new quantitative results on the distribution of residential green space for people with disabilities in the United States, building on and bridging scholarly research in two distinct domains: one involving approaches that quantify disparities in green space access among racialized minorities and socioeconomically disadvantaged groups, and the other using qualitative methods that demonstrate that most green spaces remain inac…
Investigating the relationship of indoor temperature and humidity with sleeping quality in private residential care homes for persons with disabilities in Hong Kong
Objective This study investigated the relationship between indoor temperature, humidity, and sleep quality in private residential care homes for persons with disabilities (PRCHDs) in Hong Kong, a vulnerable and under-researched population. Methods A 6 month pilot study (August 2024–February 2025) was conducted in three PRCHDs. Smart sensors monitored indoor temperature and relative humidity in dining areas and bedrooms. Thirty residents with disa…
Sociology (15 works) · Autoethnography (12 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Aesthetics (10 works) · Art (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Psychoanalysis (7 works) · Psychotherapist (6 works)