She is a scholar of contemporary identification in the U.S., examining the interplay between the individual and the social with qualitative methods. She is the author of A Year in White: Cultural Newcomers to Lukumi and Santería in the United States (Rutgers University Press, 2016), and several articles on religious, gender, and sexual identification in Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review , Gender & Society , Symbolic Interaction [, Journal of Bisexuality , and Sex Roles: A Journal of Research .