She earned her PhD in history and women’s studies at the University of Michigan in 2007. Her research focuses on histories of gender, food, and labor in Latin America, and especially Argentina. Pite’s first book, Creating a Common Table in Twentieth-Century Argentina: Doña Petrona, Women, and Food, was published by the University of North Carolina Press in April, 2013. She has also published articles in the Hispanic American Historical Review, Revista de Estudios Sociales, Apuntes, Massachusetts Historical Review, and edited volumes.