Her research focuses on contemporary Sufism and Islam in America and South Asia, with particular interest in Islam and Sufism in Sri Lanka. Her first project examined the communities of M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (d. 1986), a Tamil teacher from Jaffna, Sri Lanka, who established a community in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The latter is the subject of her forthcoming book, Sacred Spaces and Transnational Networks in American Sufism: Bawa Muhaiyaddeen and Contemporary Shrine Cultures (2018). She has published in journals such as The Sri Lanka Journal of Humanities, Social Compass, and Islamophobia Studies Yearbook. She is also a co-author of Contemporary Sufism: Piety, Politics, and Popular Culture (2018).