Knoblauch’s research has been supported by Fulbright Canada, the National Science Foundation, the Centre Canadien d’Architecture, and the Fellowship of Woodrow Wilson Scholars. Her work focuses on architecture as it mediates between government, social science, medical science, and the public. She is currently at work on a book about the role of psychology and other social sciences in reforming public housing, prisons, and mental health centers in the 1960s and 1970, forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press.