She is the author of numerous articles on the History of the American West, Environmental, Labor and Latina/o history and of the book, Translating Property: The Maxwell Land Grant and the Conflict over Land in the American West, 1840-1900. She is the lead author on the U.S. History textbook, Global Americans: A Social and Global History of the United States. She is also finishing up a manuscript, Fighting for the Fringe: Three Industrialists, Their Workers, and Employee Benefits, 1909-1950, which focuses on John D. Rockefeller, Josephine Roche, and Henry Kaiser and their roles in defining the spheres of work and home life during the early 20th century.