Since the early 1990s she has studied the music of Hungarians and Roma (Gypsies). She has also conducted research on youth and the avant-garde in Texas. She has held Fulbright, IREX, and Mellon fellowships. She is author of the book Holy Brotherhood: Romani Music in a Hungarian Pentecostal Church. She currently researches experiments with folk music in Bratislava, Budapest, and Vienna.