Her research specializes in the study of social movements, authoritarianism and state repression, transnationalism and diasporas, and the Middle Eastern region. Dana’s work appears or is forthcoming in the American Sociological Review, Social Problems, Social Forces, Mobilization: An International Journal, and the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements, among other venues. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation’s Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, the American Institute for Yemeni Studies, and the University of California’s Human Rights Fellowship. In 2010, she co-founded The Yemen Peace Project, which is dedicated to promoting cultural and artistic exchange between Americans and Yemenis.