She is also the Executive Director of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. She has published widely in American studies, queer theory, and disability studies and is the author of Technology and Logic of American Racism: A Cultural History of the Body as Evidence (Continuum, 2000) and Inventing Modern Adolescence: The Children of Immigrants in Turn-of-the-Century America (Rutgers University Press, 2008).