Her research focuses on the intersections of education, learning, and consumption; as well as on the theory and practice of public pedagogy. She also investigates sites of public pedagogy and popular culture-based, informal, and social movement activism centered on “unlearning” consumerism. Her work has been published in Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, Adult Education Quarterly, Qualitative Inquiry, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Curriculum Inquiry, and Teachers College Record. She has edited, with Peter McLaren, Critical Pedagogies of Consumption(Routledge, 2010) and, with Brian Schultz and Jake Burdick, Handbook of Public Pedagogy (Routledge, 2010).