Her book, From Liberation to Conquest: The Visual and Popular Cultures of the Spanish American War of 1898, came out in 2011 with the University of Massachusetts Press. Her current research interests are in the field of food culture studies. She recently published “The Evolution of a Fast Food Phenomenon: The Case of American Pizza” in Routledge History of Food (2014). She has an article forthcoming with the Southern California Quarterly on the pure food movement and the exhibition of food at the San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exposition of 1915. She has also published on other topics such as the Omaha world’s fair of 1898, the visual dimensions of old time radio, and the visual culture of American warfare. At present, she is serving as Treasurer of the New England American Studies Association.