Her doctoral dissertation, entitled The Contours of Identity: Sephardic Jews and the Construction of Jewish Communities in Argentina, 1880 to the Present,” focuses on how the Sephardim resisted their minority status within the largely Ashkenazic Jewish Argentine community and its organizations and defended their individual identities. She has published articles on Sephardic women and female philanthropic organizations in Argentina. Her interests include the Sephardic communities in Argentina, Sephardic women, Zionist female organizations in Argentina, and issues of identity.