Her research interests combine sexual assault and domestic violence and focus on how social scientists measure women's abuse and assault experiences as well as ethical issues in violence and trauma research. She also studies the role of conflict and coercion in women's responses to abuse, incarcerated women's abuse experiences, and the perceptions and effects of street harassment on higher education students. Currently she serves as past-Chair of the Board of Directors of the Georgia Network to End Sexual Assault and is a member of the Sexual Violence Applied Research Advisory Group (SV-ARAG) of the National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women.