Specialized in the history of housing and urbanism of the twentieth century in the Netherlands, her current research examines the ways in which the city of Amsterdam was represented in a variety of media at the turn of the century. Editor of the Journal of the Society of Architecural Historians from 2002-06, she was recipient of a fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in 2000-01, the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2006-07 and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in 2008.