Dan Cassino received his Doctorate in Political Science from Stony Brook University in 2005. He subsequently worked at Princeton University before coming to Fairleigh Dickinson University, where he is currently an Assistant Professor of Political Science. His research is mainly in political psychology, with an emphasis on how people perceive and evaluate political figures and parties. His work has appeared in Political Psychology and The Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality. Yasemin Besen-Cassino received her Doctorate in Sociology from Stony Brook University in 2005. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Montclair State University. Her research focuses on young people as well as labor and gender issues and has been featured in journals such as Contexts and The Berkeley Journal of Sociology. She was previously the editor, with Michael S.

Kimmel, of The Jessie Bernard Reader, published in 2008. They live in Bloomfield, New Jersey.