Her research focuses on the cultural history of twentieth century war, including art and cinema, and the formation of individual and collective memory. She has published on the Spanish civil war and World War two and is currently writing a history of memory and the Korean War. She is also part of a research group, funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC), that is examining the transnational uses of the past in the post cold war world. See http://judgingthepast.hypotheses.org/.