Her current book project is on the U.S./Canadian visit of Russian Grand Duke Alexis in 1871–1872, about which she has published two articles: “Grand Duke Alexis in Memphis and the Reconstruction of Southern Identity During Reconstruction” in the West Tennessee Historical Society Papers, vol. 59 (2005), and “Grand Duke Alexei and the Origins of Rex, 1872: Myth, Public Memory and the Distortion of History” in the Gulf South Historical Review, vol. 18, no. 1 (Fall 2002).