Her research examines psychoanalytic theories of childhood to investigate the creative conditions of growth in contexts of social and historical conflict. Her work appears in History & Memory, Psychoanalysis and History, American Imago, Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Curriculum Inquiry, The Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies and Pedagogy, Culture & Society. She currently has a monograph under contract with SUNY Press, entitled Childhood Beyond Pathology, which investigates five child figurations in the contemporary scene to articulate new ways of conceptualizing the inner work of growth beyond individualizing categories of diagnosis and development.