Her teaching and research focus on Black and women’s history. She has published on these topics in the Journal of Women’s History, Humanity and Society, and Ohio History. She is currently preparing the journals of Sister Justina Segale, founder of a Catholic, Italian settlement house, for digitization as an online exhibit by the American Catholic Research Center and University Archives of The Catholic University of America. She has been a Fulbright Roving Scholar in American Studies in Norway and has recently received Xavier University’s Conway Faculty Fellowship in Jesuit Education for a project on participatory social history discussions of migration and immigration.