She was a Visiting Professor at University of Richmond and Brown University. Her main work and research is on democratic theory and on populism, both theoretically and comparatively in Latin America. Her most recent publications are the chapters "Populist and Programmatic Parties in Latin American Party Systems" and "Populist Parties of Latin America: the Cases of Argentina and Ecuador" (coauthored with Flavia Freidenberg) in Heinisch, Holtz-Bacha and Mazzoleni (2017) "Political Populism: a Handbook". She is published in Revista PostDATA, Social Movement Studies, the Handbook of Latin American Studies and Nueva Sociedad. She is finalizing a book about the use of the populist myth in the discourses of Hugo Chávez, Evo Morales, Néstor and Cristina Kirchner, Donald Trump and Mauricio Macri to be published next June.