She is the author of Counter-Archive: Film, the Everyday and Albert Kahn's Archives de la Planète (2010) and numerous articles, which have appeared in History of Photography, Cinema Journal, Film History, Camera Obscura, and Framework, among other journals. She is currently writing a book focused on an alternative history of modern aerial vision across photography and film, for which she has done extensive research in archives across Europe and the United States. She received a grant for philosophy and photography research from the Shpilman Institute for Photography in 2011. Most recently, Amad was awarded the 2014 Katherine Singer Kovács Award for Outstanding Essay by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies for her article in Cinema Journal titled, "Visual Riposte: Looking Back at the Return of the Gaze as Postcolonial Theory's Gift to Film Studies."