Her research areas include the anthropology of Indigenous Australia, the anthropology of art, cognitive anthropology and legal anthropology. She has published on dreams, sleep, creativity, personhood, death, memory, emotion, human-robot interactions, perception and aesthetics, property contests and transformations, native title, and law as social process. An emerging area of research interest includes extinction(s). In 2015, she won the Curl Essay Prize (The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland). Katie studied fine art as a minor in her undergraduate degree and also practices as a painter and printmaker.