Curriculum Vita Huiying Wei Hill, Ph. D. September 2016 PERSONAL INFORMATION: Professor Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology Weber State University Ogden, UT 84408-1208 (801) 626-7888 (work) hweiarthus@weber.edu EDUCATION: 1994 Ph. D. in Sociology State University of New York at Stony Brook. 1988 M. A. in Sociology State University of New York at Stony Brook. 1986 M. A. in Linguistics State University of New York at Stony Brook. 1981 B. A. in English Language and Literature (Minor in Japanese) Sichuan Foreign Language Institute, Chong Qing, China. TEACHING EXPERIENCE: 2003 - Present Professor of sociology, Weber State University. 1998-2003 Associate Professor at Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, Weber State University, Utah. 1995-1998 Tenure-track Assistant Professor at Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, Weber State University, Utah. 1981-1985 Lecturer of English Language at the Preparatory Department for Students Going Abroad, Sichuan Foreign Language Institute, Chong Qing, China. AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION: Sociology of Organizations(bureaucracy); Organizational Behavior; Ethnic Relations; Asian-American Studies; Gender and Family; Politics, Society, and Culture in China; Sociology of East Asia; Sociological Theories; Political Sociology; Social Change; Qualitative and Quantitative Methodology; Statistics. PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS: I. Publications: 1. Revised and a peer reviewed book chapter Groups, Networks and Organizations in Introduction to Sociology A Collaborative Approach E-Book, published by Ashbury Publishing, 2017. 1
2. A peer reviewed book chapter Groups, Networks and Organizations in Introduction to Sociology A Collaborative Approach 4th edition, published by Ashbury Publishing, June 2014. 3. Film An Effective Propaganda Tool in Socialist China in the 1950s in the Selected Papers in Asian Studies, New series #66, 2001. 4. A Study of Authority and Relations in Chinese Governmental Agencies and Institutional Work Units, The Edwin Mellen Press, May 2000. 5. The Massive Unemployment in Present-Day China, The Journal of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies, Vol. 1, Oct. 1999. 6. Abstract of Mao s Cult as a Religion in China, published in 1997 ASA Paper Abstract Collection. 7. Abstract of "Chinese Communism: Neo-Patrimonialism, published in 1991 ASA Paper Abstract Collection. II. Papers Presented: (from the latest to my appointment at Weber State University) 1). Asian American Voters Pivot --- from Republican to Democrats at the Pacific Sociology Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, March 30-April 2, 2016. 2). The New Normal: The Chinese Response to Terrorist Threat in Xinjiang China at the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters Annual Conference, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, Utah March 10, 2016. 3). The New "San Min" Ethnic Policy in Xinjiang China -- A Case Study at the Western Conference of Association for Asian Studies, Salt Lake City, Utah, on Oct. 10, 2015. 4). Ethnic Policies between China and the Uygur vs. US. and the Native American at American Sociological Association Conference, San Francisco, California, August 2014. 5). Key Note Speaker on Asian American Voters Pivot From Republican to Democrats at the Annual Conference of the Chinese Association of Science and Technology Utah Chapter, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, January 2013. 6). "China and the Uygur vs. U.S. and the Native Americans --- A Comparison between the Two Governments' Ethnic Policies", at the Annual Conference of Association of Chinese Professors of Social Sciences (ACPSS) at Columbia University, New York, October 29, 2011. 2
7). She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not -The Changing Criteria in Spouse Choosing in Present-day China at the Annual Conference of Pacific Sociological Association in San Diego, CA, April 8-11, 2009. 8). Forget Me Not - Exploring Why The Rape of Nanking is Forgotten in Today s World at the International Annual Conference of ACPSS (Association of Chinese Professors of Social Sciences), Cornell University, NY, on Nov. 8, 2008. 9). Chinese College Classroom ---- A Window to Some Major Social Issues in Chinese Society, at the Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, in Denver, Colorado, Sept. 29 - Oct. 1, 2005. 10). Teaching in the Chinese Classroom - A Comparative Study of Teaching College Students in the U.S. and China, at the 4 th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences, in Honolulu, Hawaii, June 13 to June 16, 2005. 11). China - Another Type of Closed Social Stratification System, at the 4 th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences in Honolulu, Hawaii, June 13 to June 16, 2005. 12). China - Another Type of Closed Stratification System at the Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies in Seattle, Washington Sept. 30-Oct. 2, 2004. 13). The Moslem Independent Movement in Xinjiang China at The 2003 Middle East and Central Asia, Politics, Economics, and Society Conference, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Oct 17-18, 2003. 14). The Trees or Forest? A Discussion of Teaching Formal Organizations to Undergraduates presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Conference in Atlanta, Aug. 14 -- 18, 2003. 15). Market Economy and Regression of Gender Equality in PRC (1978-2001) A Theoretical Analysis presented at Association for Asian Studies Conference in New York City on March 30, 2003. 16). Were Chinese Women Really Liberated in the 1950s? A Content Analysis of the Film Women of the Great Leap Forward at the Western Conference of Association for Asian Studies, Provo, Utah, Sept. 26-28, 2002. 17). Economic Reform, Gender Regression and Changing Forms of Family in China, 1978-2001 at the Pacific Sociological Association Conference, Vancouver, Canada, April 18-21, 2002. 18). The Moslem Independence Movement in Xinjiang China, at the Pacific Sociological Association Conference, San Francisco, California, April, 2001. 19). Film An Effective Propaganda Tool in China (1949-1959), at the Western Conference on Asian 3
Studies, Long Beach, California, October 2000. 20). New Cultural Elements during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, at the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies, Houston, Texas, October 2000. 21). Another Type of Sex Workers, at the Pacific Sociological Association Conference, Portland, Oregon, April, 1999. 22). The Massive Unemployment Rate in Present-day China, at the Joint Conference of Southwest Asian Studies/Western Asian Studies, El Paso, Texas, October, 1998. 23). Mao s Cult as a Religion in China, American Sociological Association Annual Conference in Toronto, Canada, August 1997. 24). Indentured Women-- Hong Kong Men s Secondary Wives in Mainland China, at the Pacific Sociological Association Annual Conference in San Diego, April 1997. 25). Moslem Riots in Xinjiang China, at the Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, October 1997. 26). Globalization of American Culture in PRC and Resurgence of Nationalism, at the Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (WCAAS), Ogden, Utah, October 1996. 27). Model Minority -- Myth or Truth? at the Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Ogden, Utah, October 1996. DIVERSITY RELATED ACTIVITIES: January 2013 Key Note Speaker on Asian American Voters Pivot from Republican to Democrats at the Annual Conference of the Chinese Association of Science and Technology Utah Chapter, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. 1996-2005 Faculty adviser for Weber State University Chinese Students Club, responsible for managing club budgets, bank account, and advising student activities. Fall 2002 Invited by WSU Media Relations Department to conduct a one-day workshop on diversity. I used the sociology concepts of in-group/out-group, stereotype and prejudice to teach how to enlarge our in-groups, minimize out group, and made the attendees participate in some practices about stereotypes, prejudice and tainted perception about realities. 2003-2008 Member of Weber State University Annual Holocaust Commemoration Committee. Sole organizer for 2005 China Nanking Massacre Commemoration event, responsible for choosing and arranging key speakers (contacting, flights, pay, host etc.), photo exhibit and artistic performances. 4
February 2003 Special guest for KUED Civil Dialog Program hosted by Ted Capner on Chinese American Experience in America and Utah. Spring 2002 Gave a seminar on Asian American as Model Minority Myth or Truth? to the Chinese Association of Science and Technology Utah Chapter at University of Utah, and my presentation was published as an article on the local Chinese language newspaper Eastern Trend. 1996 present Guest speaker for numerous Ogden and SLC community groups, book clubs, church groups, women organizations, SLC Library, and teachers training programs on Chinese culture, Chinese politics, women, family and books published by Asian authors. STUDY ABROAD EXPERIENCE: 2015 summer Director and professor of 2015 Sociology Study Abroad to China. I taught two sociology courses Soc 3850 directed readings and Soc 4990 Special Topics: Chinese Society. I took 11 students to China. 2009 summer Group leader took WSU faculty and their families to China for two weeks. I facilitated faculty members in English Department to make connections with Xian Translation College and Shanghai Normal University. I also negotiated with U.S. Embassy in Beijing to release a suspicious swine flu traveler held by the Chinese Health Department. 1997 summer Collaborated with Salt Lake City Community College. Took a group of WSU students to study Chinese language at Shanghai Normal University for five weeks, and then travelled to parts of China for one week. 1996 summer Director of WSU China and Hong Kong Study Abroad program (six-week program). I taught Chinese language and Chinese Society for four weeks, and then took the group to China and Hong Kong University for two weeks. UNIVERSITY LIAISON TO FOREIGN UNIVERSITIES: 1996-1997 Resumed WSU sister school relationship with Hong Kong University, and led WSU Study Abroad group stay on their campus for one week. 1997-2010 Liaison between Weber State University and Shanghai Normal University. I did translations, contract negotiations, finalizing contracts, good-will visits, hosting visiting scholars and their officials, including hosting a visiting scholar in my house for six months. 5
FOREIGN UNIVERSITY TEACHING AND CONVOCATION EXPERIENCE: 2008 spring Invited by the University of Gdansk in Poland, to give one-week Convocation on contemporary China. I gave two lectures at the university and one lecture at the Social Science Academy of Poland in Gdansk. 2004 summer Invited by the Dean of College of Humanities at Shanghai Normal University, taught Sociological Research Method and Contemporary Sociological Theory at Shanghai Normal University for four weeks. INTERNATIONAL RELATED ACTIVITIES: 1995-present Major contact person and hostess to visiting scholars from Shanghai Normal University for 10 years; hosted and translated for numerous visiting groups to Weber State University. In November 2012, planned and hosted an art group from Shanghai Oriental Education Organization, acted as a host, interpreter for President Ann Millner and the keynote Speaker Jenny Shen s talk. This visit directly resulted in some major business deals with Mr. Alan Hall, member of the Board of Trustees of Weber State University. LANGUAGE SKILLS: Fluent in English and Chinese, elementary to medium level in Japanese, French, German, Russian and Turkish. 6