She teaches courses on Chinese painting, South Asian art, and Asian architectural history. Her publications include Pictures of Tilling and Weaving: Art, Labor and Technology in Song and Yuan China (Hong Kong University Press, 2011). At present Dr. Hammers is working on a book-length study on the interactions among art, labor, technology and Jesuit systems of knowledge. She was a fellow at the Needham Research Institute, Cambridge University, U.K. as well as at the Freer and Sackler Galleries in Washington, D.C. Her interests include Song and Yuan dynasty artistic practices, the relationships between technological imagery and art, and the cross-cultural reception of art between Asia and non-Asia.