Her book, The Wartime Origins of Democratization: Civil War, Rebel Governance, and Political Regimes (Cambridge University Press, 2016), explores the social and institutional impacts of violent rebellion and their effects on postwar politics. Other projects examine rebel diplomacy, religion and political violence, wartime social mobilization, and elite social networks among rebel organizations. Her work has appeared in International Studies Quarterly and International Security, among other journals, and has been supported by fellowships from the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University, where she was a Zukerman Fellow, and the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). She teaches courses on civil wars, statebuilding, and transnational security.