She has written on representations of religious and imperial authority in the art and architecture of Safavid Iran, as well as on issues of gender, nationalism and religious identity in modern Iran and Pakistan. Her current research focuses on ideology and transnationalism in contemporary mosque architecture in the Middle East. She teaches introductory surveys on Islamic art and architecture, as well as seminars on pilgrimage, gender, and representations of kingship. Her graduate courses focus on modernism and the Middle East, Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal art and architecture, and on the artistic, cultural, and political significance of the documentary survey in Europe and the Middle East from the medieval period to the present.