Sociology
Faculty
Autumn
Behringer, Ph.D.
Sociology
Club Advisor
Office: SS
124
Phone: (801) 626-7893
Fax: (801) 626-8979
abehringer@weber.edu |
Autumn
Behringer is brand-new to
Weber
State
University
.
After completing her
Ph.D. at
Purdue
University
in 2004, she and her husband
made the trek from
Indiana
to
Utah
. She can get passionate
about most aspects of
sociology, but to date her
academic life has centered on
social psychology, intimate
relationships, and gender.
Her most recent
research tackles the subject
of marital communication and
the means by which husbands
and wives build a framework of
consensual understanding.
In the future, she
plans to delve into the study
of deviance and the sociology
of sport.
When Autumn’s not in
the Social Science Building,
chances are she’s either
outdoors enjoying the
magnificent mountains or
parked in front of a
television watching football.
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Thom Kearin,
Ph.D.
Office: SS 106
Phone: (801) 626-7342
Fax: (801) 626-8979
tkearin@weber.edu
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Brenda
Marsteller-Kowalewski, Ph.D.
Sociology Program Coordinator
Office: SS
124
Phone: (801) 626-7893
Fax: (801) 626-8979
bkowalewski@weber.edu
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Brenda
Marsteller-Kowalewski has come
to Weber State University from
the University of Maryland
where she completed her Ph.D.
in 1995. Her teaching and
research areas include the
Sociology of Family, Gender,
and Work as well as Social
Psychology. The most recent
line of research has focused
on the relationship between
occupational gender
segregation and the wage gap
between men and women. Some of
Brenda's interests outside of
work include: hiking, skiing,
biking, quilting, softball,
and sunsets on Antelope
Island.
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Marjukka
Ollilainen, Ph.D.
Office: SS
122
Phone: (801) 626-6238
Fax: (801) 626-8979
mollilainen@weber.edu
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Marjukka
Ollilainen joined the
Sociology faculty in 1999. She
has a Master's degree in
Journalism and Mass
Communication from University
of Tampere, Finland, and both
an M.A. in Political Science,
and a Ph.D. in Sociology from
Virginia Tech. Her teaching
interests include sociology of
work, organizations, social
stratification, and classical
sociological theory. She also
teaches courses in the Weber
State Women’s Studies
program. Her research focuses
on the gendered nature of paid
work, gendered processes in
work organizations, and
women’s economic activities,
including investing.
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Robert W.
Reynolds, Ph.D.
Office: SS 107
Phone: (801) 626-6237
Fax: (801) 626-8979
rreynolds@weber.edu Homepage:
http://faculty.weber.edu/rreynolds/
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Robert
W. Reynolds came to Weber
State in 1993. He received his
Ph.D. in Sociology from
Washington State University in
1993. Rob teaches the research
methods, statistics, religion,
and principles courses most
often. His primary research
interests are organizations,
environment and technology and
the part they play in society.
Currently he is researching
religious organizational
structure, pilgrimage, and how
to teach statistics better..
His outside interests center
on his family.
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Huiying
Wei-Arthus, Ph.D.
Office: SS
126
Phone: (801) 626-7888
Fax: (801) 626-8979
hweiarthus@weber.edu |
Huiying
Wei-Arthus is a tenured
professor of sociology in
Weber State University. She is
specialized in teaching
organizational studies,
sociological theories both
classical and contemporary,
and research methods and
statistics. Her research
interests are in
organizational studies, Asian
Americans, social, political
and economic issues and
phenomena in present-day
China, and some topics about
the Cultural Revolution in
China.
Huiying came
to Utah from New York in 1995
after she received her Ph.D.
degree in sociology in 1994
from State University of New
York at Stony Brook. Prior to
this degree, she also received
two master degrees, one in
linguistics, and the other in
sociology. She lived in Long
Island, New York for ten
years.
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ADJUNCT FACULTY
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Kay
Gillespie, Ph.D.
Office:
SS 208
Phone: (801) 626-6245
Fax: (801) 626-6145
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Marcie
Goodman, Ph.D.
Phone:
(801) 626-
Fax: (801) 626-
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Robert
Heffernan, Ph.D.
Office:
SS 202
Phone: (801) 626-7905
Fax: (801) 626-8979
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Department
of Sociology & Anthropology