She has published articles on the history of museums, exhibition, and photography in Paedagogica Historica, the Journal of Visual Culture, Science in Context, American Quarterly and other peer reviewed journals. Her first book, Life on Display: Revolutionizing Museums of Science and Nature in the United States (University of Chicago Press, 2014), co-authored with Dr. Karen Rader, is a social and cultural history of exhibition in twentieth-century museums of science and nature. It explains how and why scientists, artists, educators and federal policy-makers used exhibition to transform public understandings of science–and ended up redefining American museums in the process.