Vivien Ng

Vivien Wai-ying Ng A scholar of social history in China and later Asian-American studies, she was the president of the National Women's Studies Association from 1993 until 1994 and has served as the chair of SUNY Albany's Department of Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies and women's studies program. Outside of academia, she also works on documentaries and short stories.

Biography Vivien Ng was born into a Chinese-American family, with her great-grandfather running a restaurant in Springfield, Massachusetts, her paternal grandfather running a grocery store in Chinatown, Manhattan, and her maternal grandfather being a Columbia University-educated filmmaker and businessman. She studied at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UH), where she was awarded the 1976 Lee Shao-sheng Award for Excellence in Chinese Studies.

After teaching at UH starting in 1981, she moved to the University of Oklahoma in 1982, where she was assistant professor of history and women's studies by 1987.

She was present at the American Association of University Women (AAUW)'s 1986 Southwest Central Regional conference, became president of the AAUW's Oklahoma division in May 1987, and was part of the AAUW Educational Foundation's board from 1989 until 1993.

In 1995, she moved to the University at Albany, SUNY,

She lived in Norman, Oklahoma, as of 1986.