After earning her PhD in history from the University of Michigan in 2007, she was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence and an Elizabeth and J. Richardson Dilworth Fellow in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. She has published widely on Italian fascism and on settlement policy. Her co-edited volume (with Giulia Albanese), In the Society of Fascists: Acclamation, Acquiescence, and Agency in Mussolini’s Italy, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2012. She is currently completing a book manuscript, Fascist Borderlands: Nation, Empire and Italy’s Settlement Program, 1922–1943, which explores Fascist efforts at nation- and empire-building in newly conquered territories.