Her essays, book reviews and reportage have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, Ms. Magazine, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Washington Post, History Today and Dissent Magazine, among other publications. She is the author of "Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture" (The University of Chicago Press, 2013), a narrative history of indentured plantation workers which was shortlisted for the 2014 Orwell Prize, the British prize for artful political writing.