Her research focuses on the exchange of material goods and artistic practices between Asia and Europe in the early modern period, particularly the Dutch engagement with China. She has published essays on the seventeenth-century Dutch travel book author Johan Nieuhof, Delftware and Chinese export porcelain, Dutch and Chinese ethnographies, and early Sinology in Europe. She is currently working on two research projects. One explores the visual culture of seventeenth-century Batavia (present-day Jakarta) and art produced for Dutch East India Company employees by the region’s diverse population of Chinese, Indonesia and European inhabitants. The second studies the first public display of Chinese art in the United States, which was presented in eighteenth-century Philadelphia by the Dutch-born émigré Andreas Everardus van Braam Houckgeest.