Her research interests include consumer and material culture, political economy, middle-class culture, built environment, domestic space, body, transformations, film and popular culture, Hungary, postsocialist states. Her recent book, Politics in Color and Concrete: Socialist Materialities and the Middle Class in Hungary, won the William A. Douglass Book Prize, awarded by the Society for the Anthropology of Europe, American Anthropological Association, and honorable mention for the Davis Center Book Prize, awarded annually by the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies.