Faculty and Staff

Dr. Huiying Wei Hill

Professor of Sociology
Bio

Huiying Wei-Hill specializes in teaching organizational studies, sociological classical and contemporary theories, research methods and statistics. Her research interests are in organizational studies, Asian Americans, social, political and economical issues and phenomena in present-day China, along with cultural revolution in China.

Huiying came to Utah from New York in 1995 after she received her Ph.D. in sociology in 1994 from State University of New York at Stony Brook. Prior to this degree, she received two master degrees, one in linguistics and the other in sociology. She lived in Long Island, New York for 10 years.

Major Publications

"Film - An Effective Propaganda Tool in Socialist China in the 1950s" in the Selected Papers in Asian Studies, New series #66, 2001.

A Study of Authority and Relations in Chinese Governmental Agencies and Institutional Work Units -- Neo-Partimonialism in Urban Work Units by The Edwin Mellen Press, May 2000.

"The Massive Unemployment in Present-Day China", in The Journal of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies, Vol. 1, Oct 1999.

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Dr. Pepper Glass

Assistant Professor of Sociology
Bio

An ethnographer and qualitative researcher, Dr. Glass’s teaching and scholarly interests include the topics of deviance, social psychology, social movements, race and ethnicity and urban studies.

He is currently researching the effects of immigration and the shifting racial color line on Ogden, Utah.

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Dr. Pepper Glass

Assistant Professor of Sociology
Bio

An ethnographer and qualitative researcher, Dr. Glass’s teaching and scholarly interests include the topics of deviance, social psychology, social movements, race and ethnicity and urban studies.

He is currently researching the effects of immigration and the shifting racial color line on Ogden, Utah.

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Dr. RC Morris

Professor of Sociology
Bio

Dr. Morris is an Assistant Professor of Sociology; his major area of interest is Social Psychological Criminology. He is a national paper winner for his work on the collateral consequences of mass incarceration impacting childhood development. He teaches courses in Sociology & Criminology. His most recent work has been published in the Journal of Applied Social Science and Emerald Publishing's series on Sociological Studies of Children and Youth. Outside of academia, he enjoys spending time with his wife and four children, mountain biking, golfing with his father and brother, traveling, and eating good food!

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Marjukka Ollilainen

Department Chair, Professor (Sociology)
Bio

Ph.D. (sociology), Virginia Tech, 1999; MA (political science), Virginia Tech, 1992; MSocSc (journalism and mass communication), University of Tampere, Finland, 1991.

Professor Ollilainen teaches Introduction to Sociology, Classical and Contemporary Social Theory and courses in Sociology of Gender, Work, Organizations and Consumerism. Her research explores the intersection of gender, work and organizations and appears in Advances in Gender Research, Gender & Society, Economic and Industrial Democracy and Research in the Sociology of Work. She is currently studying work-life issues in academia in the U.S. and Finland.

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Dr. Robert Reynolds

Associate Professor of Sociology
Bio

Rob Reynolds received his Ph.D. in sociology from Washington State University in 1993.

His primary research interests are the environment and technology and the part they play in society and religion. He teaches courses in environment and society, statistics, religion and introduction to sociology most often.

Currently, his research focuses on the Atomic West and religious pilgrimage.

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