Her research considers aspects of the multifaceted social, economic, political, and intellectual contexts of American musical life during the twentieth century, including the intersections of music and politics that characterized the Great Depression Era and the effects of McCarthyism on film music composers. She has published in American Music, Journal of the Society for American Music, and Musica/Realtà, and she has presented her research at various meetings of the American Musicological Society and the Society for American Music. Contenuti della rivista