She is the author of Children of Fate: Childhood, Class and the State in Chile, 1850-1930 (Duke University Press, 2009), co-editor, with Elizabeth Quay Hutchison, Thomas Klubock, and Peter Winn, of The Chile Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Duke University Press, 2013), and is currently writing The Birth of Uncertainty: Testing Paternity in the Twentieth Century (Harvard University Press, 2018). She has served as a volunteer translator at the detention center at Dilley.