During the spring semester of 2010, she was a guest researcher at Lund University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies in Sweden, where she will again do research in the spring semesters of 2011 and 2012. Her areas of interest include ethnic studies, the schooling and community experiences of students from minority and immigrant backgrounds, and ethnographic methods. Dance has contributed to a coauthored report based on her three-year involvement (roughly from 2006 to 2009) in a six-nation research project funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, “The Children of Immigrants in Schools” (NSF, PIRE: No. 0529921, 2006; Richard Alba, principal investigator). She has conducted ethnographic research in communities in the United States (Baltimore, Cambridge, Boston, and Philadelphia) and in Sweden (Malmö, Kalmar, Göteborg, and Stockholm).