Her academic interests include culture change, international development and planned change. Her research has focused primarily on Bangladesh but she has spent a considerable amount of time in India, mostly directing field schools for student groups. In particular, her research has focused on women’s work in homestead gardens, stigmatization of leprosy patients and the abandonment of women and children in Bangladesh. More recently, she has become interested in women’s narratives and the ways in which women represent their lived experiences, especially through letters. Alongside her projects on the Rajbanshi identity and a manuscript on the letters of Canadian expatriate women working in Bangladeshi women’s and children’s shelters, she is excited to be a collaborator for the LGBTQ Collaboratory.