She is a former Fulbright researcher at CREEES/Stanford (2009/2010). Her research focuses on the political and social transformations of the interwar Romania and Eastern Europe, comparative methodology, as well as teaching and learning in Moldovan higher education. Her research has explored how students learn to make historical comparisons. In December 2012 she began a Humboldt senior research fellowship in residence at the Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung (IOS) in Regensburg, Germany, where she will write a book on alternative visions of belonging of Bessarabians after WWI.