Her fields of interest include modern European social and cultural history; German and East Central European history; and the Second World War and the Eastern Front. Her teaching interests include courses on Soviet history and the Russian Empire, the Second World War, and European history of cities and everyday life. She is currently working on a book on the extended German-Soviet encounter in Königsberg/Kalingrad during the 1940s--the only place ruled by both Nazi Germany and Stalin's Soviet Russia as their own patrimony.