Her interests focus on social stratification, especially regarding race, class, gender and sexuality in Latinx, Maya and Latin American communities. Using third-world feminist and critical cultural studies approaches, she has published on topics such as Latina Sexuality, funerary and mortuary practices among Mexican Americans, and how Mayas in Tulum, Mexico negotiate the process of globalization and tourism with respect to marriage, religion, ethnic relations, and the environment. She has conducted fieldwork in Texas, Mexico and Guatemala, and directed an NSF-funded field school in Guatemala and Tulum between 2007-2009. She currently teaches courses on ethnographic methods, Mexican American cultures, gender and sexuality, and theory in Anthropology.