Her research areas include racial and ethnic politics, state and local governance, and the political economy of metropolitan areas. Her current book project examines the responsiveness of state and local institutions to the policy concerns of immigrant and ethnic minority groups in American suburbs. She is the co-Principal Investigator of the Collaborative Multi-Racial Post Election Survey (CMPS 2008), the first national, multi-racial, multi-lingual post-election study of racial and political preferences and behavior among registered voters in the United States. Frasure is also a Senior Research Associate to the Gender and Multicultural Leadership Project, the most comprehensive multiracial national study of Black, Latino, Asian, and American Indian elected officials.