Her research interests involve diversity in organizations, especially racial and ethnic conflicts in the workplace. Past research projects involved the issue of diversity and teamwork in the business context and attitudes toward immigrant workers. She has published, with Tom Janoski, Diversity at Kaizen Motors: Gender, Race, Age, and Insecurity in a Japanese Auto Transplant (2011). Her teaching interests include sociology of organizations, work and occupations, industrial sociology, diversity and discrimination at work, globalization and work, and sociology of immigration.