Oliver Wang is a professor of sociology at California State University, Long Beach, and the curator of Cruising J-Town: Behind the Wheel of the Nikkei Community, produced by the Japanese American National Museum, and hosted at the Peter and Merle Mullin Gallery at the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena in 2025. Oliver previously wrote Legions of Boom: Filipino American Mobile Disc Jockey Crews of the San Francisco Bay Area (Duke University Press, 2015) and has written about Asian American music, film, food, sports, and other arts/culture topics since the 1990s. He lives with his wife, Sharon Mizota, in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles.
