Her research examines the intersection of Khrushchev-era housing policy with official ideology, society, and identity. Among her publications are chapters in the volumes Divided Dreamworlds? (University of Amsterdam Press, 2012) and The Dilemmas of De-Stalinization (Routledge, 2006), as well as the article “Homemaking and the Aesthetic and Moral Perimeters of the Soviet Home during the Khrushchev Era,” which appeared in the Journal of Social History (2008). She recently completed the monograph, Stories of House and Home: Socialism, Society and the Soviet Person, during the Khrushchev Years (Cornell University Press, forthcoming). Her new research project focuses on Soviet relations with non-aligned countries, from the perspective of gender.