Lotus’ research foci are gender, work, and organizations, with an emphasis on the interactional processes through which categorical identities and status structures are (re)produced on a daily basis. Her scholarship is grounded in an understanding of gender as socially-constructed and performative and motivated by a desire to understand the influence of organizational structures on both individual ways of doing gender and general social inequality. Lotus has a Master’s in Women’s Studies from The Ohio State University and earned her Ph.D. in Women’s Studies and Sociology at the University of Michigan in 2016.