She is affiliated with the Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies Program and the Womens, Gender, and Sexuality Program. She teaches courses on modern art in the United States, Mexico, and Latin America. Her primary area of research is Mexican moralism and the politics of exhibition. Her book, "How a Revolutionary Art Became Official Culture: Murals, Museums, and the Mexican State" (Duke 2012) won the College Art Association's Charles Rufus Morey Prize for distinguished book in Art History in 2012. She is currently completing a monograph of Orozco's Epic of American Civilization.