Her research to date has focused on modern Indonesian history and memory, the Indonesian military, Islam and identity in Indonesia and historical international links between Indonesia and the world. She is currently undertaking an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship on the project: Confronting Historical Injustice in Indonesia: Memory and Transnational Human Rights Activism. Her books include History in Uniform Military Ideology and the Construction of the Indonesian Past (2007), The Contours of Mass Violence in Indonesia, 1965-68 (2012), co-edited with Douglas Kammen and The Indonesian Genocide of 1965: Causes, Dynamics and Legacies, edited with Jess Melvin and Annie Pohlman (forthcoming 2018 Palgrave McMillan). She is also writing a new book focusing on Indonesian activism for the so called ‘comfort women’.