Her research clusters around two themes: design pedagogy and the rhetoric of popular visual culture relative to the construction of cultural and place-based identity. Writing is her most frequent deliverable and she has published articles in Dialectic, Visible Language, the Journal of Communication Design, and Imago Mundi, among others. Currently, she is at work on her second book, a visual history of the type specimen for graphic design educators, students, and practitioners. The initial research for this project was funded by the Cary Fellowship at the Rochester Institute of Technology’s Cary Graphic Arts Collection in 2015 and the process of writing the book proposal was supported by the Design Incubation Fellowship in 2017.