She is a cultural historian who studies and teaches on the ideas that shape people’s gendered historical memory as individuals, communities, and societies writ large. Her work examines individual and local memories, placing them in larger continental and global historical perspectives. Her book, Imagining a Nation: History and Memory in Making Zimbabwe (University of Virginia, 2015), was a finalist for the Berkshire Conference of Women’s Historians Book Prize. She is currently at work on a second monograph on memory and transnational migration (Bloomsbury, 2017) as well as academic articles and literary pursuits.