She is also a s a frequent commentator on television talk programs. From 2001 until 2011, she taught in the Political Science Department at Haverford College; in 2013-14, she was a resident member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. Her current research project (provisionally titled The Right Kind of Difference: Latino Republicans and the Pleasures of Race) is an exploration of how Latino conservative thought is shaped not only by ideology but through a potent combination of emotion, expression, and aesthetics.