She published Federal Fathers and Mothers: A Social History of the United States Indian Service, 1869-1933 in 2011. Cathleen’s current research explores the intersections of identity and political activism—specifically suffrage activism—of Native American, Asian American, Hispanic, and Black women in the early twentieth century. An additional project, Indians on the Road: Gender, Race, and Regional Identity, focuses on Indigenous mobility and the relationship between transportation technology and territorial claims on the West Coast