Yasemin Besen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
1 Normal Avenue Dickson Hall
Montclair, NJ 07043
Office: Dickson Hall #305
Phone: (973) 655-7229
Fax: (973) 655-5839
E-Mail: beseny@mail.montclair.edu
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION: sociology of work, sociology of youth, gender, quantitative methodology, ethnography
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS:
PRESIDENT’S AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING: SUNY Stony Brook (May 2004)
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 FOR BEST PAPER 2006: SAPOR, American Association of Public Opinion Research (October, 2005)
HANAN SELVIN GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER AWARD IN METHODS: SUNY Stony Brook, Department of Sociology (May, 2005)
ROSE LAUB COSER GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER AWARD IN GENDER: SUNY Stony Brook, Department of Sociology (May, 2004)
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS:
NATIONAL LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF YOUTH97 FELLOWSHIP: United States Department of Labor (June, 2004, June 2005).
LUXEMBOURG INCOME STUDY PROJECT VISITING SCHOLAR GRANT: Luxembourg Income Study Project, r&r.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
PEER REVIEWED PAPERS:
“It’s Not like a Job: A Study of Part-Time Youth Labor in Suburban America” Fall 2004, Contexts, vol.3, no. 4.
“Consumption
of Production: Part-Time Student Employment in Suburban United States”,
Berkeley Journal of Sociology. October 2005
vol. 49 issue 1.
“Fun or Exploitation: The Lived Experience of Work in Suburban America” 2006.Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. vol.35 no.3.
“Cost of Being a Girl: Gender Wage Differentials in Teenage Employment.” 2008 summer National Women’s Studies Association Journal.
“Pay or Play? Labor Market Entry Decisions of Youth in the United States.” 2006. Regional Labor Review.
"At Sam's Club No Girls Allowed: The Lived Experience of Sex Discrimination." (with Michael S. Kimmel) 2006. Equal Opportunities International. 25.3.
BOOK REVIEWS:
Shopping for Pleasure: Women in the Making of London’s West End by Erika Rappaport, in The Journal of International Women’s Studies,
July 2005.
Why Men Earn More by Warren Farrell Men and Masculinities forthcoming.
A Will of Their Own: Cross- Cultural Perspectives on Working Children by Manfred Liebel. International Journal of Comparative Sociology.
forthcoming.
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Contact Dr. Besen at Beseny@mail.montclair.edu