Her focus on Latin America, gender, and comparative/global and world history and she is especially interested in human rights, women's rights, gender equity, and notions of inclusion and exclusion in the making of modern nations. Her book, The Politics of Motherhood: Maternity and Women's Rights in Twentieth-Century Chile, presents a study of citizenship rights in Chile through the lens of gender analysis. Dr. Jadwiga Pieper-Mooney has also written about forced sterilization campaigns and human rights violations in Peru and North Carolina.