Her research, consulting, and teaching focuses on improving coordination between local authorities to address modern social, economic, and environmental issues that inevitably transcend geographical and jurisdictional boundaries. She wrote Comparative Metropolitan Policy: Governing Beyond Boundaries in the Imagined Metropolis (Routlege, 2012), co-authored A Quiet Evolution: The Emergence of Indigenous-Municipal Intergovernmental Partnerships in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2016), and numerous articles on regional governance, regional economic development, intergovernmental relations, and collective action. She also co-authored Discovering American Regionalism, forthcoming from Routledge.