Her research interests include aesthetics, visual culture, and the history of art education. She has published articles and reviews in Art Education, Studies in Art Education, The Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, History of Education Quarterly, and other professional journals. She has written chapters on the history of art education and historical research for the Handbook of Research and Policy in Art Education (2004), Women Art Educators V: Conversations Across Time (2003), and Framing the Past: Essays on Art Education (1990). She co-edited a book on the foundations of education, Readings in American Public Schooling (1980), and a conference proceedings on the history of art education, The History of Art Education: Proceedings from the Second Penn State Conference, 1989 (1992).