She is the author of Counterterrorism Policies in Central Asia (Routledge, 2011) and Democracy in Central Asia: Competing Perspectives and Alternate Strategies (University Press of Kentucky, 2015), and editor of Nationalism and Identity In Central Asia: Dimensions, Dynamics, and Directions (Lexington Press, 2014). She is a recognized author in the fields of Eurasian security and counterterrorism with multiple scholarly articles and extensive experiences of field research in Central Asia, South Caucasus, and Russia.