She has done extensive fieldwork with African American converts to Sunni Islam and medical anthropology research around sickle-cell disease and health care disparities, and she is currently focused on a longitudinal film project in Africa and the African diaspora. In addition, she has produced, directed, and/or edited a number of documentaries including Chicks in White Satin (1994), a film about a lesbian wedding; and Purification to Prozac: Treating Mental Illness in Bali (1998). She is the author of Engaged Surrender: African American Women and Islam (2004) and is completing Uncertain Suffering: Racial Healthcare Disparities and the Politics of Sickle Cell Disease and Televised Redemption: Race, Religion and Media with Marla Frederick and John Jackson.