Within the field of American politics, she specializes in the area of law, courts and politics. She teaches undergraduate courses on the U.S. Supreme Court, constitutional law, civil liberties, gender and the law, judicial process and law, politics and society. She also teaches graduate level courses in the area of public law. Her current research interests focus on the politics of representation, judicial diversity and judicial selection at the state level, the relationship between social identity, law and politics, and the role of courts as instruments of social change.