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==Early life and education==
 
==Early life and education==
{{Quote box|width=250px|Though she died at the time of my birth, my grandmother's Swedish presence was still felt in the meatballs my mother made. However, when asked I preferred to say I was Danish, like my mother's father, to avoid problems with the Norwegians. It didn't hurt, of course, that the name Olwig is Norwegian in origin.<br/>&mdash;Kenneth Olwig{{sfn|Olwig|2003|pp=211-212}} }}
 
   
Olwig grew up in a Scandinavian neighborhood of [[Staten Island, New York]].<ref name="lrg">{{Cite web|url=http://www.landscaperesearch.org/about/lrg-directors/kenneth-olwig/|publisher=Landscape Research Group|title=Kenneth Olwig|author=Kenneth Olwig|accessdate=2013-06-13}}</ref>{{sfn|Olwig|2003|p=211}} His father was sports editor for the ''[[wikipedia:Staten Island Advance|Staten Island Advance]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.shimer.edu/alumninetwork/RodSuch.cfm|title=Rod Such|publisher=Shimer College|accessdate=2013-06-13}}</ref>
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Olwig grew up in [[Staten Island, New York]].<ref name="lrg">{{Cite web|url=http://www.landscaperesearch.org/about/lrg-directors/kenneth-olwig/|publisher=Landscape Research Group|title=Kenneth Olwig|author=Kenneth Olwig|accessdate=2013-06-13}}</ref> He left high school early to attend [[Shimer College]], which for more than 50 years has offered an [[Early_entrance_at_Shimer_College|early entrance program]] for talented high schoolers ready to enter college early.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.shimer.edu/academicprograms/undergraduate/earlyentrantprogram.cfm|title=Early Entrant Program|publisher=Shimer College|accessdate=2013-06-13}}</ref> He did a junior year abroad in Denmark,<ref name="lrg"/> and graduated in 1967.<ref name="cv">{{Cite web|url=http://www.slu.se/Documents/externwebben/ltj-fak-dok/landskapsarkitektur/Personal/Olwig-1.pdf|title=Kenneth R. Olwig: Calendar 2012, Research Projects, CV, Publications|author=Kenneth Olwig|accessdate=2013-06-13}}</ref>
 
Olwig left high school early to attend [[Shimer College]], which for more than 50 years has offered an [[Early_entrance_at_Shimer_College|early entrance program]] for talented high schoolers ready to enter college early.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.shimer.edu/academicprograms/undergraduate/earlyentrantprogram.cfm|title=Early Entrant Program|publisher=Shimer College|accessdate=2013-06-13}}</ref> He did a junior year abroad in Denmark, which he has credited with initiating him into "the core issues of Nordic identity",{{sfn|Olwig|2003|p=212}} and graduated in 1967.<ref name="cv">{{Cite web|url=http://www.slu.se/Documents/externwebben/ltj-fak-dok/landskapsarkitektur/Personal/Olwig-1.pdf|title=Kenneth R. Olwig: Calendar 2012, Research Projects, CV, Publications|author=Kenneth Olwig|accessdate=2013-06-13}}</ref>
 
   
 
For graduate school, Olwig attended the [[wikipedia:University of Minnesota|University of Minnesota]], where he completed a master's degree in Scandinavian "language, literature, history and geography" in 1971. Olwig has characterized the subject of his master's degree as "Scandinavian philology,"<ref name="lrg"/> and philological inquiry has remained a staple of his writing.
 
For graduate school, Olwig attended the [[wikipedia:University of Minnesota|University of Minnesota]], where he completed a master's degree in Scandinavian "language, literature, history and geography" in 1971. Olwig has characterized the subject of his master's degree as "Scandinavian philology,"<ref name="lrg"/> and philological inquiry has remained a staple of his writing.
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