Her book of photographs, Undergarments and Armor (Nazraeli Press, 2005) was supported by a 2002-3 Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 2003 Anson Kittredge Grant; the project won a 2005 JGS Book Project Award, She is the recipient of a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, a National Foundation for the Advancement in the Arts Award, and the George Sakier Memorial Prize for Excellence in Photography from Yale University School of Art, where she earned her M.F. A. Her photographs are in the collections of the Corcoran Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Yale Art Gallery, and The Library of Congress. Ms. Marcuse teaches Photography and Photography History and Theory at Simon's Rock of Bard College. She is working on a theoretical based photography project, "Wax Bodies," photographs of 18th century Italian wax anatomical models.