She is the author of Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), and, together with Sarah Abrevaya Stein, co-editor of Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History, 1700-1950 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014). She has received a number of grants to support her work, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Stanford Humanities Center, the Foundation for Jewish Culture, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, the Institute for Turkish Studies, the American Research Institute in Turkey, and the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies of the University of Pennsylvania.