CJ Pascoe

CJ Pascoe is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon.  She is also the chair of the American Sociological Associations section on Sex and Gender. She teaches courses on sexuality, social psychology, deviance, gender and education.  Her current research focuses on gender, youth, homophobia, sexuality and new media.

Her book, Dude, You’re  a Fag:  Masculinity and Sexuality in High School, won the American Educational Research Association’s 2007 Book of the Year Award as well as an honorable mention for the ASA’s section on Sex and Gender’s Distinguished Book Award. Dude documents the relationship between homophobic harassment, heterosexism and masculinity in high school.  In it CJ suggests ways we might begin to redefine gender norms that are damaging to both boys and girls.

Before coming to University of Oregon, CJ taught at Colorado College. Previous to her time in Colorado, CJ spent two years working with the Digital Youth Project, part of the MacArthur Foundation’s initiative in learning and new media.  Along with her co-researchers and under the guidance of Mimi Ito, CJ co-authored Hanging Out, Messing Around and Geeking Out:  Living and Learning with New Media, the largest qualitative study of youth new media use to date.

CJ’s research has been featured in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Toronto Globe and Mail, American Sexuality Magazine and Inside Higher Ed.  She has appeared in the Frontline documentary Growing Up Online as well as on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered.

She is currently conducting fieldwork for her new book on youth cultures of love and romance as well as continuing to publish about bullying, homophobia and gender. She is also co-editing a book with Professor Tristan Bridges entitled (Re)Theorizing Masculinities. She can also be found blogging about sexuality at Social (In)Queery.

She received her B.A. in Sociology from Brandeis University in 1996 and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2006.

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