Her research primarily concerns the history of the Spanish empire, early modern Europe, visual and material culture in science, collecting and display, books, and prints. Peter C. Mancall is a Professor of History and Anthropology at USC, and is a historian of early America, the early modern Atlantic world, early modern environmental history, and early Native American Indian history. Together, these scholars edited a collection of fourteen essays which represent new research being done in the cross-cultural history of collecting and display from the dawn of the sixteenth century to the early decades of the nineteenth century.