YASEMIN BESEN-CASSINO
1 Normal Avenue, Montclair, NJ 07043
(973) 655-7229
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. SOCIOLOGY (August 2005)
State University of New York at Stony Brook
M.A. SOCIOLOGY (June 2002)
State University of New York at Stony Brook
B.A. SOCIOLOGY (May 2000)
Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
APPOINTMENTS:
FULL PROFESSOR: (September 2017-present)Montclair State University, Department of Sociology
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR: (2010-2017): Montclair State University, Department of Sociology
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR: (2005-2010) Montclair State University, Department of Sociology
EDITORSHIPS:
BOOK REVIEW EDITOR: (June 2014-present) Gender&Society.
EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER: (2016-present) Contexts
GUEST EDITOR: (December 2007) Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality.
MANAGING EDITOR: (2003- 2005)Men and Masculinities (editor: Dr. Michael S. Kimmel), an international, interdisciplinary journal specialized in gender studies published by SAGE.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY:
EXTERNAL REVIEWER:
SUNY Farmingdale STS Program (March 5, 2017)
SUNY Old Westbury Sociology (Fall 2017)
NJ STATE LEGISLATURE: expert witness on the gender wage gap (February 6, 2012)
REVIEWER: Book reviewer and consultant for Palgrave Macmillan, Thomson, Pearson AB Longman, Cengage, Princeton University Press, University of California Press (2005-present)
JOURNAL REVIEWER: Reviewer for Gender&Society,Sociological Forum, Work&Occupations, Sociological Perspectives, Social Problems, YouthSociety and Scientific Journals International, Child and Youth Forum, Men and Masculinities and Emerald Book Series on Work(2008-present)
BOOK REVIEWER: Reviewer for Choice, a central source for reviews of academic books primarily for academic libraries (2012-present).
HONORS AND AWARDS:
DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR, Montclair State University (2012-2013)
TEACHING FELLOW, RESEARCH ACADEMY FOR UNIVERSITY LEARNING, Montclair State University (2010-2011)
DEAN’S RECOGNITION AWARD IN TEACHING, Montclair State University (April 2008)
TEACHING FELLOW, RESEARCH ACADEMY FOR UNIVERSITY LEARNING, Montclair State University (2007-2008)
PRESIDENT’S AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING BY A GRADUATE STUDENT: SUNY Stony Brook (May 2004)
CELT FELLOWSHIP FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING: CELT -Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (2002-2003)
CERTIFICATE OF APPRECIATION: SUNY Stony Brook, Department of Sociology
(June 2002)
PAPER AWARDS:
JAMES PROTHRO PAPER AWARD
SAPOR, American Association of Public Opinion Research, $300 and travel funds (October, 2005)
HANAN SELVIN GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER AWARD IN METHODS
SUNY Stony Brook, Department of Sociology, $100 and travel funds (May, 2005)
ROSE LAUB COSER GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER AWARD IN GENDER: SUNY Stony Brook, Department of Sociology, $100 and travel funds (May, 2004)
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS:
SOCIOLOGISTS FOR WOMEN IN SOCIETY (SWS) $15,000 (2017-2018)
SOCIAL ACTION AWARD, SWS, September 2016 cycle $1000 (2016-2017)
SOCIOLOGISTS FOR WOMEN IN SOCIETY (SWS) $15,000 (2016-2017)
SOCIOLOGISTS FOR WOMEN IN SOCIETY (SWS) $15,000 (2015-2016)
AKD SOCIOLOGY HONO SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM GRANT (with Christopher Donoghue) $600 (2016)
AKD SOCIOLOGY HONOR SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM GRANT (with Christopher Donoghue) $600 (2015)
SOCIOLOGISTS FOR WOMEN IN SOCIETY (SWS) $15,000 (2014-2015)
AKD SOCIOLOGY HONO SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM GRANT (with Christopher Donoghue) $1000(2014)
GLOBAL EDUCATION TRAVEL GRANT, Montclair State University $800(2013-2014)
SEPARATELY BUDGETED RESEARCH GRANT, Montclair State University $2300(2012-2013)
STUDENT-FACULTY RESEARCH GRANT, Montclair State University, $1600 (2012-1013)
GRANT DEVELOPMENT GRANT, Montclair State University$4000(2010-2011)
CAREER DEVELOPMENT GRANT, Montclair State University$5900(2010-2011)
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN (AAUW),with Dr. Mary Gatta,$5000(June 2009)
STUDENT RESEARCH GRANT, Montclair State University$2000(July 2009)
W.E. UPJOHN FOUNDATION GRANT, Upjohn Foundation, Michigan$5000 (August 2008)
CAREER DEVELOPMENT GRANT, Montclair State University$2000(August 2007)
GRANT DEVELOPMENT GRANT, Montclair State University$4000(2007-2008)
GLOBAL EDUCATION GRANT, Montclair State University$2900 (January 2007)
LUXEMBOURG INCOME STUDY PROJECT SUMMER PROGRAM (June-July 2007)
NATIONAL LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF YOUTH97 FELLOWSHIP: United StatesDepartment of Labor and Ohio State University (June 2004, June 2005).
PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS:
Cost of Being a Girl: Working Teens and the Origins of the Gender Wage Gap(forthcoming Temple University Press, December 2017)
Social Science Research Methods by Example (with Dr. Dan Cassino)Routledge, July 2017.
EducationYouth Today2016 Emerald Publishers, official publication of the American Sociological Association).
Consuming Work: Youth Work in America (Temple University Press, 2014)reviewed by Choice, Library Journal, Contemporary Sociology, GenderSociety, WorkOccupations , Sociological Inquiry, Chronicle of Higher Education, Social Forces and featured in BBC4’s Thinking Allowed and American Sociological Association Work and Labor section’s Work in Progress).
Consuming Politics: Jon Stewart, Branding and Youth Vote in America 2009 (with Daniel R. Cassino) Rowman and Littlefield: New Jersey (reviewed by Tribune, United Kingdom; Contemporary Sociology).
The Jessie Bernard Reader (with Michael S. Kimmel) 2008. Paradigm Publishers: CO.
2010 Routledge.
RESEARCH REPORTS/MONOGRAPHS:
Gender Pay Gap in New Jersey: A Policy Report for the New Jersey American Association of University Women. 2010 (with Mary Gatta) New Jersey: AAUW.
EDITED JOURNAL VOLUMES:
Guest Editor “Special Issue on Young Men and Masculinities.” 2007. Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality. Vol. 1 no.3.
PAPERS & BOOK CHAPTERS:
“Unemployment and Aesthetic Labor among Middle-Class Youth.” In Youth, Jobs and the Future: Problems and Prospects. Lynn Chancer, Christine Trost and Martin Sanchez Jankowski Oxford University Press(forthcoming, 2018).
“Division of Household Chores and the Curious Case of Cooking: The Effects of Earning Inequality on House Chores among Dual-Earner Couples.”(with Dan Cassino) 2015 About Gendervol 3, no 6: 25-53. (featured in the Atlantic, Fortune, Harvard Business Review, Medical Daily, Washington Post)
“Cool Stores, Bad Jobs, and Young Workers.” 2013. Contexts, 2013(Fall).(Featured on BBC4’s Thinking Allowed)
Reprinted in
Newman, David and Jodi O’Brien(2014) Sociology, Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life: Readings) Sage Publications, 10th edition.
“Teenage Employment”2013 SAGE Sociology of Work Encyclopedia edited by Vicki Smith and Geoffrey Golston. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
“Cost of Being a Girl”2013 Getting In is Not Enough: Social, Political, and Economic Aspects of Women's Access to Workedited by Terri Fredrick and Colette Morrow. Johns Hopkins University Press.
“Young Men, Religion and Attitudes towards Homosexuality.” 2012(with Gilbert Zicklin) in Men’s Lives( Michael S. Kimmel and Michael Messner, editors. Pearson Press.
“Childhood” 2011. in The Concise Encyclopedia of Sociology (edited by George Ritzer and Michael Ryan) Wiley Blackwell
“Origins of the Gender Wage Gap” 2009. The Diversity Factor. 17(3).
“Youth and Social Change in America” (with Daniel R. Cassino) 2009.Handbook on Social Change. Brooke Stroud and Scott Corbin(eds.) Nova Publishers: New York.
“Work as an alternative to School? Confidence in the Education System and Youth’s Labor Market Entry Decisions.” 2008. Education& Society. vol. 26 no.1
“Cost of Being a Girl: Gender Wage Differentials in Teenage Employment.” 2008. National Women’s Studies Association Journal (NWSAJ) vol.20 no.1.(winner of James Prothro, Rose Coser and HananSelvin Paper Awards)
“The Once and Future Information Society.”2008. (with James B. Rule) Theory& Society. Vol. 37no 1.
“The Study of Youth Labor: Shift toward a Subject-centered Approach.” 2008.
Sociology Compass. vol. 1 no.1.
“Young Men, Religion and Attitudes towards Homosexuality.” 2007.(with Gilbert Zicklin) Journal of Men Masculinitiesand Spirituality. Vol 1 no.3.
“Young Men, Masculinities and Spirituality: An Introduction to the Special Issue of JMMS.” 2007. Journal of Men Masculinitiesand Spirituality. Vol. 1 no.3.
“Men at Work.” 2007. Equal Opportunities International. Vol. 26. no.3.
Pay or Play? Labor Market Entry Decisions of Youth in the United States.” 2006. Regional Labor Review. Vol. 9. no.3 (Fall).
“At Sam’s Club, No Girls Allowed: The Lived Experience of Sex Discrimination at Work.” (with Michael S. Kimmel) 2006. Equal Opportunities International. Vol. 25. no.3.
“Fun or Exploitation: The Lived Experience of Work in Suburban America.” 2006. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. Vol.35 no.3.(Top 50 Most Read Article, Contexts’ most noteworthy article of the year)
“Consumption of Production: Part-Time Student Employment in Suburban United States.” 2005. Berkeley Journal of Sociology. Vol. 49 no 1 (Fall).
“It’s Not like a Job: A Study of Part-Time Youth Labor in Suburban America.” 2004. Contexts. Vol.3 no. 4.
PUBLISHED PEDAGOGICAL PAPERS:
“Movies on the Family.” 2008. in Lecture Ideas for Courses on the Family. Thomson/Wadsworth.
“Senior Research Project” 2007.The Capstone Course in Sociology. Edited by Theodore Waagenar. American Sociological Association: Washington DC 4th edition.
BOOK REVIEWS:
Too Few Women on Top: The Persistence of Inequality in Japan by Kumiko Nemoto
American Journal of Sociology(forthcoming 2018)
Women who Succeed by Susan DurbinWork and Occupations(forthcoming 2018)
Preparing Today’s Students for Tomorrow’s Jobs by Laura Perna Teacher’s College Record, Columbia University (2014 Spring)
Visible Histories, Disappearing Women: Producing Muslim Womanhood in Late Colonial Bengal by Mahua Sarkar International Sociology. 2010. Vol. 25 no. 2.
Why Men Earn More by Warren Farrell Men and Masculinities. 2007. Vol. 9 no.4.
A Will of Their Own: Cross- Cultural Perspectives on Working Children by Manfred Liebel. International Journal of Comparative Sociology. 2007. Vol. 48 no.1.
Picturing Men by John Ibson. Journal of Men Masculinities and Spirituality.
2007. Vol.1 no. 2.
Shopping for Pleasure: Women in the Making of London’s West End by Erika Rappaport, in The Journal of International Women’s Studies. 2005. Vol. 6 no.2.
INVITED TALKS:
AAUW Madison, NJ Branch, speaker March 5, 2018.
“Children and Youth in a Global World.” Regular Paper Session, Children and Youth Section. Discussant. Annual Meeting of American Sociological Association, August 2017, Montreal, CA.
United Nations 61st session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) (March 13-24, 2017), presenter Cost of Being a Girl.
AAUW Annual Meeting April 30, 2017. “Gender Inequality at Home and Work.” Atlantic City. Invited Speaker.
“Cool Brands, Bad Jobs: Rise of Aesthetic Labor and Teen Work in the New Economy” Invited Presidential Session. Annual Meeting of Eastern Sociological Society. February 2017, Philadelphia, PA.
“Unemployment and Aesthetic Labor among Middle-Class Youth.” In Youth, Jobs and the Future: Problems and Prospects. Youth Unemployment Conference. Roosevelt House, New York City, NY. September 2016.
AAUW Monmouth County Conference on the Gender Wage Gap for Senior Women, speaker, New Jersey, (April 6, 2009)
AAUW Conference on Women and the Gender Wage Gap, (with Lily Ledbetter) and moderator , New Jersey, (January 24,2009).
“Origins of the Gender Wage Gap.” Paper Presentation at Women’s Month, Montclair State University, Women’s Studies Program. March, 2007.
Student Conference, Presider and Discussant, Montclair State University, Women’s Studies Program. March, 2007.
“At Sam’s Club: No Girls Allowed.” Speaker, AKD Sociology Honor Society, March 2006.
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION:
“Cool for Some: The Gendered Experiences of Precarious Work.” (with Dr. Richard E. Ocejo) Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Regular Paper Session, August 2017, Montreal, CA.
“Babysitters: Gender Inequality in Pay with an Intersectional Perspective.” Annual Meeting of Eastern Sociological Society. February 2017, Philadelphia, PA.
“Babysitters: Gender Inequality in Pay with an Intersectional Perspective.” Winter Meeting SWS. February 2017, Albuquerque, NM.
“Affluent Students in Precarious Work.” Precarious Work Conference American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Seattle, WA August, 19-23 2016.
“Youth Unemployment in the Post-Recession Economy.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Seattle, WA August, 19, 2016.
“Youth Unemployment in the Post-Recession Economy.” Work and Family Researchers Network, Annual Conference. Washington, DC. June 23-25, 2016
“Millennials and Unemployment: Gender, race and Intersectionality.” Memphis, TN SWS Winter Meeting February 4-7, 2016.
“Consuming Work: Youth Work in America,” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL August, 2015.
“Consuming Work: Youth Work in America.” Eastern Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York, February 26-March 1, 2015.
“Pay Gap among the Teenage Workforce.” Sociologists for Women in Society Winter Meeting Washington DC February 19-22, 2015.
“Consuming Work: Youth Work in America.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting San Francisco, CA August 2014.
“Racial Differences in the Youth Labor Force. International Labour Processes Conference, Paper Presentation. Kings College, London. April 6-9, 2014
ASA.
“Gendered Responses to the Economic Crisis.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. New York, March 18-20, 2014
“Aesthetic Labor and Youth Work in America: Finding Jobs after the Recession.”International Labour Processes Conference, Paper Presentation. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ March 18-20, 2013.
“Gendered Responses to the Economic Crisis” WAPOR’s Annual Meeting. Paper presentation. Gdansk, Poland March, 2012.
“Gendered Responses to the Economic Crisis” Eastern Sociological Association’s Annual Meeting. Paper presentation. New York City, February, 2012.
“Women’s Votes: Men’s Laws” AAPOR Annual Meeting Phoenix, AZ, May 2011.
“Symbolic Masculinities: Men’s Voting in the United States” Eastern Sociological Association’s Annual Meeting. Paper presentation. Boston, March, 2010.
“Symbolic Masculinities: Men’s Voting in the United States.” Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. San Francisco, CA. August, 2009
"Symbolic Masculinities: Men’s Voting in the United States” “Symbolic Masculinities: Men’s Voting in the United States” Annual Meeting of Midwestern Political Science Association. Paper Presentation. Chicago, IL. April, 2009.
“Origins of the Gender Wage Gap.” AAUW Paper Presentation. April, 2009.
“Origins of the Gender Wage Gap.” (guest speaker with Lily Ledbetter)AAUW Paper Presentation. New Jersey, January 2009
“Consuming Politics” Eastern Sociological Association’s Annual Meeting. Paper presentation. New York City, March, 2008.
“Avoiding Families: The Effects of Teenage Work on Family and Peers Relationships.” National Conference on Family Relations (NCFR) Paper Presentation, Session Presider and Discussant. Pittsburg ,November 2007.
“Cost of being a Girl.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Paper Presentation. New York City, August 2007.
“Bonding at the Coffee House: Male Friendship and Intimacy in the Workplace.” Eastern Sociological Society (ESS). Paper Presentation. Philadelphia, March 2007.
What Happened to Angry Youth? (with Daniel R. Cassino) American Political Science Association Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, August, 2006.
“Cost of being a Girl.” American Association of Public Opinion Research (AAPOR)Annual Meeting. Paper Presentation. March 2006.
“Pay or Play? Labor Market Entry Decisions of Youth in the United States”, in the Global Youth Employment Conference, Hofstra University, September 2005, NY.
At Sam's Club, No 'Girls' Allowed: The Gendered Organization of Wal-Mart with Michael S. Kimmel, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, 2004, San Francisco.
Pay or Play? Labor Market Entry Decisions of Youth in the United States in American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, 2003, Atlanta.
Ethnography Conference,SUNY Stony Brook, Department of Sociology, 2004, New York: presider and organizer.
MEDIA:
The Society Pages (April 13, 2017)
Council on Contemporary Families (March 30, 2017)
Richard French Show, Fios(September 2016)
Washington Post (April 21, 2017)
Everyday Sociology Blog (July 21, 2016)
Fatherly (November 11, 206)
Atlantic (October 24, 2016)
Medical Daily (October 19, 2016)
Mad Mike’s America (October 28 2016)
Fortune (April 20, 2016)
Harvard Business Review (April 19, 2016)
PolitiFact (October 17, 2013; July 13, 2015)
BBC4 Thinking Allowed (May 1, 2014)
Courier Post, Asbury Park Press (September 27, 2014)
The Start Ledger (February 14, 2013)
Montclair Times (March 9, 2013)
Wider Opportunities for Women WOW (August 14, 2013)
Newsday (September 2005)
NON-ACADEMIC WRITING:
“Origins of the Gender Wage Gap.” Gender &Society Blog December 19, 2016.
“Consuming Work” Work in Progress, the Official Blog of the ASA Work Section, March 16, 2015.
“The Legacy of the Boomers: Climate of Optimism and Adaptability.” Courier Post September 27, 2014.
“Consuming Work” North Philly Notes, Temple University Press March 19, 2014
LANGUAGES:
English (fluency, written and spoken)
Turkish(fluency, written and spoken)
German(intermediate, written and spoken)
MEMBERSHIPS:
American Sociological Association
Eastern Sociological Society
Sociologists for Women in Society