Pasque's research focuses on higher education organization and administration, qualitative inquiry, educational equity and diversity, indigenous methodologies (PI with the RED-DIRT research team) and the relationships between higher education and society. Her publications include nearly 100 books, monographs, articles, reviews, chapters and academic papers. Pasque’s research has been published in the Journal of Higher Education, Review of Higher Education, Journal of College Student Development, Qualitative Inquiry, Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, among others. Her most recent book is Qualitative Inquiry in Higher Education Organization and Policy Research, which she edited with Vicente M. Lechuga, an associate professor of educational administration and human resource development at Texas A&M.