She specializes in post-Cold War U.S. foreign policy, in particular the development of neoconservatism; intellectuals and foreign policy; humanitarian interventionism; the Bush administration and the “Global War on Terror;” and the history of the CIA. For over a decade, she has been researching, publishing, and teaching historical and contemporary aspects of U.S. national security policy. She is currently researching her second monograph, which is provisionally titled “Beyond Iraq: The War on Terror on the Periphery,” and is supported by an Early Career Fellowship from the Arts and Humanities Research Council.