Her book Moving Images: Photography and the Japanese American Incarceration was published by the University of Illinois Press in 2009. She is a contributing author to Colors of Confinement: Rare Kodachrome Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in World War II edited by Eric Muller and published by University of North Carolina Press in 2012. Alinder is currently researching a book on photography and censorship during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.