Areas of Specialization
Language, Representation & Culture
Textual Analysis & Qualitative Methods
Feminist & Poststructural Theory
Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality

Professor Celine-Marie Pascale’s primary scholarly interest is in exploring the (re)production of culture, knowledge, and power through sociological analyses of language and representation. Her research draws from feminist, poststructural, and queer theories.  Methodologically, she explores emergent forms of qualitative inquiry, particularly with regard to textual analysis.  By pushing the formal boundaries between social theory and empirical analyses Pascale’s research interrogates cultural productions of ethical values, race, class, gender and sexuality.

Professor Pascale’s first book Making Sense of Race, Gender and Class: Commonsense, Power and Privilege in the United States was published by Routledge.  Her second book Cartographies of Knowledge: Agency, Subjectivity and Experience in Interpretative Research Methods is forthcoming from Sage in 2009.  Her research has also been published in Cultural Studies<-> Critical Methodologies; Race, Gender, and Class; and  Perspectives on Social Problems.  She has forthcoming articles in Qualitative Inquiry, Studies in Symbolic Interactions, Current Sociology, and Advances in Gender Research.  In addition, her published scholarly work includes a variety of book chapters and course materials.

Pascale’s interest in public sociology emerges through her work facilitating diversity education for public and private organizations. In addition, she an associate of the Center for Social Media and brings her expertise on issues of representation and ethics to collaborations as a video production consultant.

In 2006 Pascale was elected co-president of Research Committee 25, Language and Society, of the International Sociological Association (ISA). RC 25 has more than 90 members from countries around the globe.  She and her co-president, Sandi Michele de Oliveira, of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, will serve through 2010.  In addition, Professor Pascale is an elected executive committee member of the American Sociological Association Section on Race, Gender, Class.

American University awarded Celine-Marie Pascale the Multicultural Affairs/International Student Services Award for Distinguished Faculty in 2005. 

Professor Pascale’s courses include: Global Sociology, Introduction to Social Research, White Privilege and Social Justice, Multiculturalism, Sociology of Language, and Feminist and Gender Theory.