Her research interests include the history of cultural entanglements with regards to knowledge, food, religion, and gender. She is currently working on an entangled history of vegetarianism during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her studies, which takes her to libraries and archives in Germany, Britain, France as well as Lebanon, India, and the United States, has been supported by several grants, e. g. the Gerda Henkel Foundation, the DFG and the Max Weber Stiftung, where Julia currently holds a Gerald D. Feldman travel grant.