She held postdoctoral fellowships with the University of Iceland, the University of Manitoba, and the University of Alberta after completing her PhD at the University of Toronto in 2010. Her manuscript, Immigrant Threads: Fashioning Icelandic-North American Culture, is forthcoming with the University of Toronto Press. Her new research focus employs material and visual culture in the mapping Nordic/ Scandinavian and Canadian Indigenous exchange, from 1000 CE onwards.