Her research and teaching interests include twentieth-century U.S. history; histories of women, gender, and sexuality in the Americas; human rights; and transnational feminism. Her writing has appeared in the Journal of Women's History, Gender & History, and Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies, and her Gender & History article "Marta Vergara, Popular-Front Pan-American Feminism and the Transnational Struggle for Working Women's Rights in the 1930s" won the 2015 WAWH Judith Lee Ridge Prize. She is working on a book manuscript provisionally titled La Vanguardia Feminista: Pan-American Feminism and the Rise of International Women's Rights, 1915-1946.