She is the author of several articles and a monograph on Japanese American Concentration Camps including "Does Food Make Place? Food Protests in Japanese American Concentration Camps," Food and Foodways, 10:3, 2002, 137-165 and Artifacts of Loss: Crafting Survival in Japanese American Concentration Camps published by Rutgers University Press. Her current work focuses on Southeast Asian America specifically on the foodways of Laotian, Vietnamese, and Hmong Americans.