From here she went on to hold her first of many visiting research positions as a Five Colleges Women's Studies Research Associate at Mount Holyoke College (2004). She then went on to do research at Brandeis University (2006), Cornell University (2010), and in International Women's Studies at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford (2014). In 2006 she became a non-resident fellow at Harvard University's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African American Research, and was promoted to Associate in 2009. In 2002 she won the Presidential Award of the University of Maryland University College for excellence in scholarship. Seven years later she was again recognized for excellence in research with a University System of Maryland Regents' Award.