Her research examines the history of modern human rights by exploring the intersections between policy, ideology, and activism. Her book manuscript (in progress), Social Justice, Not Charity: International Women's Activism, Gender Politics and the Making of Modern Human Rights, explores how feminist activists navigated international politics and ideas about gender in their efforts to promote a global "social revolution" for women in the aftermath of World War II. She co-authored "Eleanor Roosevelt: Negotiating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights" in Junctures in Women's Leadership: Social Movements (Rutgers University Press, 2016). She currently teaches courses on the World since 1945, the United States in World Affairs, the History of Human Rights, and Cold War America.