Jeffrey Kassing
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Phone: 602-543-6631
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FAB S142 PHOENIX, AZ 85069-3251
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Mail code: 3051Campus: West
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Professor Kassing teaches courses in research methods and sport studies. In addition, he has developed and teaches study abroad courses in the United Kingdom and Spain.
His research interests include sports fandom, sports media, sport and politics, sport and gender, and sport and migration. Previously he has published on various aspects of communication within the context of sport including communication between coaches and athletes, parents and youth athletes, and fans and athletes.
Of late, his work has focused primarily on the socio-cultural aspects of soccer, featuring in publications that consider fan identity expressed through social media use, stadium displays, and migration patterns within a global perspective. Along with several published articles, this work includes the following authored and edited books:
- Perspectives on the U.S.-Mexico Soccer Rivalry: Passion and Politics in Red, White, Blue and Green (Palgrave, 2017)
- The Art of Tifo: Identity, Representation, and Performing Fandom in Football/Soccer (Peter Lang, 2022)
- Football and Diaspora: Connecting Dispersed Communities Through the Global Game (Routledge, 2023)
- States of Play: Soccer and Society Perspectives on the Global Game in America (Routledge, 2026)
- Reverse Flow Migration in International Football: Decolonization and Neocolonialism in the Global Game (Routlege, forthcoming)
Dr. Kassing is the Co-Director of the Sport, Media, and Culture Research Group at ASU. He appeared in the Amazon Prime docuseries Good Rivals (2022) that explores the US/Mexico soccer rivalry and has contributed to articles about football/soccer fandom for AP News, ESPN, and BBC News. He is a member of The International Network for Research in Sports and Migration Issues.
Additionally, Dr. Kassing was a pioneering and prominent scholar in the area of organizational dissent. He developed several measurement tools (e.g., The Organizational Dissent Scale, The Upward Dissent Scale) and published both quantitative and qualitative research that explored how employees express dissent about workplace policies and practices. This line of research spanned several decades and numerous publications on the subject, including his book Dissent in Organizations (Polity, 2011). You can learn more about his organizational dissent research by visiting dissentworks.com.
- Ph.D. Organizational Communication, Kent State University (1997)
- M.A. Organizational Communication, Murray State University (1994)
- B.A. Public Relations, William Jewell College (1989)
