She has published articles in Annals of Science, Journal for the History of the Behavioral Sciences, and Historische Anthropologie, several chapters in edited collections, and co-edited the 2013 Osiris volume on music, sound, and the laboratory. Her monograph, The Psychophysical Ear: Musical Experiments, Experimental Sounds, 1840–1910 (MIT Press, 2012), explores the relationship between psychophysical studies of sound sensation and music culture. Her current projects examine the co-development of new listening forms and background music technology and the standardization of listening practices among field scientists.