Her research interests include American material culture studies, American women’s history, and consumerism. She has recently published “`A Kind of Missionary Work’: The Labor and Legacy of Cincinnati’s Society Women, 1877-1922,” in Cynthia Amnéus, A Separate Sphere: Dressmakers in Cincinnati’s Golden Age, 1877-1922, with a foreword by Timothy Rub (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press for the Cincinnati Art Museum, 2003). She also has recently been named new editor for Ohio History.