She is currently in Tokyo on a Fulbright fellowship working on her second book manuscript entitled /Mothers Against War: Gender, Motherhood, and Grassroots Peace Activism in Postwar Japan/. Her first book /Yasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan's Unending Postwar/ (University of Hawaii Press, 2015) is the only book-length work in English that critically examines the controversial war memorial. She has published in journals including /Gender and History/, /Verge: Studies in Global Asias/, /The Public Historian/, /The Pacific Historical Review/, and /Review of Japanese Culture and Society/, as well as a wide range of edited volumes on topics from war memory and mass dictatorship to aesthetics and visual culture. She is currently affiliated with Sophia University.